Saturday, February 28, 2015

The Search for Marisol Hill

Marisol Hill was born in the 1970's and lived in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  

Gladys Hill was a screenplay writer, actress, and assistant to famous movie director, actor, and screenplay writer John Huston.  John Huston and Gladys Hill lived and worked in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

John Huston directed 37 movies and was nominated for 15 Academy Awards.  Some of his famous movies were The Night of the Iguana, The Maltese Falcon, The Misfits, The Asphalt Jungle, and The Man Who Would Be King.

Gladys heard about a baby who had been abandoned by her mother and was staying in the home of a woman who had several children.  Gladys visited this home and saw that this baby was being kept in a box under a bed and was malnutritioned.  The woman who was keeping the baby didn't want her and gladly turned her over to Gladys, who took the baby to a doctor.  The doctor admitted the baby to the hospital and Gladys would go to visit the baby every day.  After a while the baby was showing signs of improvement and Gladys took the baby home with her.

Gladys was a divorced woman, 60 years of age, when she began caring for the baby that she named Marisol Hill.  As Gladys became more attached to the baby she referred to her as her daughter.

Marisol was about four years old when Gladys had to go to New York to work on "Annie" and left Marisol in Puerto Vallarta in the care of Maricela Hernandez, the "housekeeper" of John Huston.

Gladys was found dead in her New York hotel room.    It took a few years but finally the court determined that Marisol could inherit part of Glady's estate, but by then no one knew where Marisol was......that is no one would tell.  Apparently Maricela Hernandez knew what happened to her, but would not tell......she did not want Marisol to receive her inheritance.

Maricela Hernandez lived in Beverly Hills, CA and was contacted to ask for help in finding Marisol, but she refused and none of Maricela's family would help either.

Without a trail to follow, sadly, poor Marisol never received her inheritance.

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