Thinking on my upcoming LA game, I came across this historical person as inspiration for an Immortal PC/NPC. Her name was Florence Lawrence and she is also known as “The First Movie Star”, “Imp Girl” and “The Girl of a Thousand Faces”.
Not only is her life an amazing read (and equally tragic is her death as she faded from fame), so much of it seemed to support the idea of the Immortal:
– there seemed a hint that she was aware she was leaving behind a legacy (the postscript in her suicide note read: “P.S. You’ve all been swell guys. Everything is yours”);
– one of her most famous role was in a movie called “Resurrection” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001016/;
– her grave was unmarked until 1991; and
– William Mann wrote a novel, The Biograph Girl, about her in which he blends facts with fiction, revealing that a doctor helped Lawrence fool the public into thinking she committed suicide and instead she lives at a nursing home.
Fact is stranger than fiction.
This combines my interest in early film with my interest in RPGs