Mena Suvari as Black Dahlia: A Behind the Scenes Snapshot (Photo)

The case was highly sensationalized in the Los Angeles papers, with details being exaggerated and changed so as to turn mild-mannered Short into the character of “The Black Dahlia,” an adventurous, promiscuous woman,

As far as the main plot goes, the flashback this week is to an actual murder – Elizabeth Short, a.k.a. the Black Dahlia, from 1947. In this mythology, she came to The House to see a dentist, who put her under and raped her, then

Suvari is not the first actress who has portrayed the iconic Dahlia. Lucie Arnaz played Short in a 1975 television production called Who Is the Black Dahlia?, and The L Word's Mia Kirshner starred in the 2006 Brian De Palma interpretation of the events

The case was highly sensationalized in the Los Angeles papers, with details being exaggerated and changed so as to turn mild-mannered Short into the character of “The Black Dahlia,” an adventurous, promiscuous woman,

The case was highly sensationalized in the Los Angeles papers, with details being exaggerated and changed so as to turn mild-mannered Short into the character of “The Black Dahlia,” an adventurous, promiscuous woman,