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Bloodgood was playing the last role of her short but brilliant career in Clyde Fitch's THE TRUTH. The play ... was not a success, but in the fall she decided to take it on tour. While in Baltimore, she shot herself in a hotel room just before an evening performance. The motives for her suicide
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