Sunday, May 29, 2016

#6 Oddities!

Hilton Sisters.....Siamese Twins!

7 comments:

Bob Cline said...

Daisy and Violet Hilton's life story has been captured on film by Leslie Zemeckis in her award winning documentary entitled Bound by Flesh.

Bob

Roger Smith said...

Daisy and Violet are ideally remembered in 2014's award-winning, 92-minute documentary BOUND BY FLESH, written, produced and directed by Leslie Zemeckis

Chic Silber said...


The Hilton twins were the

featured roles in the 1997

Broadway musical "Side Show"

Daisy and Violet Hilton

real life Siamese twins

were star attractions in

carnivals in the 1930s

Bob Karczewski said...

Didn't the Hilton Sisters eventually own a hotel?

Chic Silber said...


Not these sisters Bob

You're confusing them

with Nicky & Paris &

they aren't even twins

Chic Silber said...


Big difference Bob as

Daisy & Violet were

multi talented as well

as being joined at the hip

Nicky & Paris are famous

only for being famous &

for being spoiled rich

(& a clever video clip)

Roger Smith said...

Daisy and Violet not only never owned anything, their very last chance at a payday, a poorly attended appearance at a drive-in movie in North Carolina left them ripped off by the promoter. He took what sad receipts came in, and left the sisters without even a ride back to their room. A sympathetic grocery store owner gave them jobs sorting produce in back of his store, just to help them get some income. Later, he arranged two cash registers so that the twins could check customers out in two lanes. The sisters were found dead in their lonely room, having refused to the end to undergo surgery which specialists knew could separate them successfully. The documentary noted above, by Leslie Zemeckis, is a perfectly realized telling for them. Remember to stay tuned for the coming release of Ms. Zemeckis's documentary on Mabel Stark. She is continuing editing right now, striving to wrap production ahead of her busy summer.