At the height of her career in the 1950s, Warner Brothers starlett Barbara Payton made $5,000 a week—worth about $53,000 by today’s standards. This made it all the more shocking when just over a decade later, Payton would die destitute from drug and alcohol addiction before her 40th birthday.
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