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Henri Désiré Landru (12 April 1869 – 25 February 1922) (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi deziʁe lɑ̃dʁy]) was a French serial killer, nicknamed the Bluebeard of Gambais. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He murdered at least seven women in the village of Gambais between December 1915 and January 1919.
Art dealer Henri Landru becomes infatuated with burlesque performer, Odette, who already has a lover and is only interested in Landru for money. She tricks Landru into thinking her mother is sick and needs money for an important operation. Landru vows to raise the money to fund the operation. Landru attempts to find furniture that he can sell.
Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 American black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, who plays a bigamist wife killer inspired by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru. The supporting cast includes Martha Raye, William Frawley, and Marilyn Nash. In the film, a bank teller is fired after three decades of work. The unemployed man still ...
Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Henri Désiré Landru" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Henri Désiré Landru (1869–1922) was a French serial killer. Landru may also refer to: Landrú, byline of Argentine political cartoonist Juan Carlos Colombres (1923–2017) Landru, a 1963 French film about the serial killer; Landru, a character in the 1963 Star Trek episode "The Return of the Archons
However, the most notable item at the museum is the head of Henri Landru. [1] In 2014 the museum also acquired Thanatron, one of the original suicide machines built by Jack Kevorkian. [7] Once a year, the museum holds a Black Dahlia look-alike competition, where contestants have to dress as both pre- and post-mortem Dahlia. [11]
In 1922, while traveling in France, Miller saw Henri Désiré Landru (known as "Bluebeard") guillotined in a Versailles street for murdering 10 women and a boy. Miller began timing the execution. The executioners threw Landru onto the upper platform of the guillotine which such force that the deck partially collapsed.
Landru, Henri Désiré: 1915–1919 11 11+ Executed 1922 Known as "The Bluebeard of Gambais"; killed mistresses and lovers during the war period; inspired the character of Monsieur Verdoux played by Charlie Chaplin [21] Lastennet, Claude: 1993–1994 5 5 Died in prison Strangled elderly women after burgling into their Paris apartments [22 ...