Does anyone know the tv show/film...?

Question

i can't remember what it was but i was watching a show about a couple of months ago where they were talking about memorable deaths and they were saying about a story (assuming its made up) some famous woman (i think an actress) that was going to kill herself and all she could think about was how beautiful she'd look on the front page the next day with her in a bed of roses and she would take an overdose of pills, but what happened was she did took the pills and went to the toilet and was throwing up and tripped and hit her head or something and died and thats what was on the front page the next day so she was remembered but for the wrong reasons.

it was a woman telling the story but i can't remember what tv show/film it was from, does anyone know? thanks.

Answer 1

There are lots of good stories like this in a book called Hollywood Babylon.

I particularly find tragic the 1930s actress who took an overdose & lay dead for several days.

Her lovely little lap dogs became so hungry they started to eat her.

The press photographers made a meal of that one, lol.

Answer 2

There's an episode of "Frasier" where Frasier tells somebody that story.