Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about FAUNA HODEL!
Fauna Hodel – IMDb: Fauna Hodel, Writer: Pretty Hattie’s Baby. In 1951, Fauna Hodel, the white daughter of a prominent California family, was given away at birth to a young black woman who worked as a restroom attendant in a Nevada casino. Fauna grew up believing she was of mixed race, encountering prejudice from both blacks and whites. When she sought out her birth mother Tamar years later, she found out …
Fauna Hodel’s Family Has Been Very Vocal About Their Thoughts On ‘I Am The Night’: TNT’s new miniseries, I Am the Night, brings to life the unbelievable true story of Fauna Hodel. Sadly, Fauna died before the show made it to TV, but it’s based on her 2008 memoir, and the rest of the Hodel family has given I Am The Night their…
Pretty Hattie’s Baby (1991) – IMDb: Directed by Ivan Passer. With Alfre Woodard, Charles S. Dutton, Jill Clayburgh, Bobby Hosea. An unreleased film about a white girl adopted by a black family in 1950s Nevada. Based on the early life of Fauna Hodel whose grandfather is prime suspect in the Black Dahlia murder case.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: author and motivational speaker wrote true-crime memoir . one day she’ll darken: the mysterious beginnings of Fauna hodel . author’s grandfather is prime suspect in infamous black Dahli her memoir inspired I Am the Night, a 2018 six-episode limited television series starring Chris Pine and India Eisley . she spent much of the 2000s as a motivational speaker, talking about r 1 podcast ranking” in the United States.
