Leo Bailey (Martin Vanghan) is a drink-sodden old artist who, alter decades of alcoholic abuse and self-indulgent tempestuousness, has pushed away all his friends, three ex-wives and all but one of his children.
He died in 1953, aged 39, in a New York hospital, from 'alcoholic abuse'; though it has been strongly claimed that he really died from an accidental overdose of morphine.