A 1931 Hollywood marquee for Daybreak, co-starring Helen Chandler and Jean Hersholt. By the early thirties, with Novarro's drinking increasing, his tradeable asset, his looks, had taken a hit. At a house party in 1933 at Una Merkel's place in the Hollywood hills, he had apparently gotten VERY intoxicated, gone upstairs and stripped naked, bounced on a bed and yelled that he was Queen Victoria "on her death bed." Pulled down and brought to his senses, he later apologised to his host. Merkel noted that his antics had been "the highlight of an otherwise dull party." In 1935 MGM did not renew his contract, and his reign as a matinee idol and silver screen latin lover had come to an end.
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