Eddie Mannix

The movie is titled The Further Misadventures of Cliff Booth.

It focuses on Pitt's character, Cliff, in the 1970s, working as like a studio fixer in the Eddie Mannix sort of style.

I don't know.

The trailer for it, I don't know if you've seen it, Leonard.

Now, Reeves lived at 1579 Benedict Canyon Drive in a fairly modest home, actually, that he bought while he was in a relationship with Tony Mannix.

Now, Tony Mannix at the time was married to Eddie Mannix, who was an executive at MGM, who was known as the MGM fixer.

He cleaned up the messes.

That's really an interesting thing.

And then there was the whole Tony Mannix affair.

Now, Reeves had ended their long relationship.

And because her husband, Eddie Mannix, had powerful Hollywood and underworld associations, later writers constructed theories in which Reeves' death was somehow arranged in revenge.

That's a really wonderful cinematic theory, right? I mean...

Yeah.

And hovering over all of this is the knowledge that her husband is the most dangerous mob connected man in Hollywood.

The stress must have been paralyzing.

It is the definition of a high-pressure environment nearing the point of critical failure.

If you look at Eddie Mannix's resume, staging a violent death is right in his wheelhouse.

He has a history of using suicide as a cover story.

Detail how, in 1932, he covered up the death of Jean Harlow's husband, Paul Byrne.

Right, Paul Byrne is found dead of a gunshot wound.

Remember him all the way back in that, the scandals and controversies episode a few weeks ago? He was the one who allegedly shot himself to death, and I have to say allegedly because there's so many weird stories around that one.

He supposedly shot himself to death in the middle of a party in his own home, right? Um, and it was like he was also tied to this ex-lover, who was the wife of Eddie Mannix, who was this violent, crazy, scary fixer for MGM, who harassed, um, was it Patricia Douglas? The one that got, that g- got raped.

Just so, so many awful stuff, right? Like, it's so many we- so much weird stuff around Reeves.

Well, George Reeves was allegedly the second victim of the Superman curse.

Hello listeners and happy Halloween month.

I've, I had to convince Eddie that we need to do an entire month of Halloween episodes because Eddie is always like, no, it takes up so much of our recording time.

It does.

But then when we had to kind of punt and go, well, we have to record random shit anyway.

I believe the 2013 version did not have that.

But again, just going by anecdotes, I've not actually watched it.

So I guess my question, before we really get into more of this, is how did you come to the Evil Dead franchise, Eddie? What dragged you in

it? It was definitely Army of Darkness.

And as usual, that's not really something that's changed a lot over the years.

From the secret party houses of Beverly Hills and Culver City, to Gloria Grahame's shocking relationship with her stepson, and the alleged murder that Eddie Mannix may have helped go away.

Hollywood has always been full of secrets, and there's always controversy knocking at that door.

That's what we're gonna look at today.

When I tell you it was, like, it was a mess.

It, it was just a mess.

So essentially, meanwhile, like, throughout the '50s, um, Reeves was in this not-so-secret affair with Toni Mannix, and if that last name Mannix sounds familiar to you, it should, because she was the wife of Eddie Mannix.

She was married to Eddie Mannix, the mob-connected fixer who was really high-ranking at MGM.