Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pamela Susan Courson (December 22, 1946 – April 25, 1974) was the long-term companion of Jim Morrison, singer of the Doors. Courson stated she discovered Morrison's body in the bathtub of a Paris apartment in 1971. She died three years after him, in 1974. She was later legally recognized as his common-law wife. [1]
Archive film in the documentary is drawn from Granada TV's The Doors Are Open, the band's appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in July 1968, snippets from the then unreleased film Feast of Friends, the opening scene of Apocalypse Now featuring the Doors' song "The End" and television appearances on The Jonathan Winters Show, The Ed Sullivan Show ...
Singer Jim Morrison of The Doors with girlfriend Pamela Courson during a 1969 photo shoot at Bronson Caves in the Hollywood Hills, California. Morrison died in the early morning hours of July 3, 1971.
After her death in 1974, Courson was buried by her family as Pamela Susan Morrison. Her parents petitioned the court for inheritance of Morrison's estate. The probate court in California judged that she and Morrison had what qualified as a common-law marriage. Morrison's will at the time of his death named Courson as the sole heir. [137]
Dialogue that took place between Morrison and Patricia Kennealy is misrepresented in scenes between Morrison and Pam Courson, with Courson speaking Kennealy's words. Courson is also depicted as saying hostile things to Kennealy, when by Kennealy's reports the interactions between the two women were polite. [35]
Morrison, having grown disillusioned with fame, performed his final concert with The Doors in December 1970 and moved with longtime girlfriend Pamela Courson to Paris, where he hoped to focus on ...
Despite the absence of an official autopsy, the cause of death was listed as heart failure. [126] He was buried in the "Poets' Corner" of Père Lachaise Cemetery on July 7. [127] [128] Morrison died at age 27, the same age as several other famous rock stars in the 27 Club. In 1974, Morrison's girlfriend Pamela Courson also died at the age of 27 ...
The three-bedroom house where the Doors front man and his girlfriend Pamela Courson lived together in the late 1960s is on the market for $1.199 million-- pricey when you consider the 2,300-square ...