How did Producer/director Thomas H. Ince die on William Randolph Hearsts yacht?
Ince died in November 1924, while celebrating his forty-third birthday aboard Hearst’s yacht, and his death has been the subject of much innuendo and gossip. Officially he died of a heart attack, but Hollywood rumor of the time suggested he had been shot by Hearst in a dispute over actress Marion Davies. Probably the true story will never be known, but legend has it that sometime during the voyage on his yacht, Hearst shot Ince. Possibly accidentally, possibly in a jealous rage after learning that Chaplin and Davies were having an affair.
