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WHITTIER MUSEUM ART EXHIBITION “The Life and Art of Madi Comfort” -Jazz Singer, Model, Painter- Feb 22-July 1, 2025
THE WHITTIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM
6755 Newlin Avenue, Whittier, California 90601
Email: info@whittiermuseum.org Website: www.whittiermuseum.org
Office Hours: Tues-Fri. 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Madi Comfort (1923-2003) aside from being a film actress and jazz singer (she was Duke Ellington’s original “Satin Doll”) and talented artist, was also a prime witness in the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, better known to the world as “The Black Dahlia.”
Madi was a close personal friend and intimate to both George and Dorothy “Dorero” Hodel during the 1940s and the secret Hodel/Black Dahlia Files, hidden for over fifty-years, revealed she was also a prime witness interviewed in 1950 by LADA Lt. Frank Jemison and in addition to acknowledging being the lover of both George and Dorero also confirmed “that George Hodel knew and dated the victim Elizabeth Short, prior to her murder in 1947.”
If you are in the Los Angeles area during the next five month period I would highly recommend a visit to see Madi’s artwork at the Whittier Museum.
See link here for samples of her artwork as now on display at the museum.
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