Patricia Douglas

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.

We've talked about him before.

He was the one that orchestrated that smear campaign against Patricia Douglas after she was raped by an MGM employee at an MGM party in 1937, uh, at Hal Roach's ranch in Culver City.

Uh, and he was one of the...

This Eddie Mannix guy was one of the hired hands after that happened to slander her, destroy her, and make sure that the case didn't go anywhere and to bully anybody who could help her get that case across the line.

The story broke in March of 1937.

You can look it up in the papers for yourself.

Less than two months before Patricia Douglas was assaulted on the ranch of MGM's, um, Hal Roach Ranch by an MGM employee, three men, okay, in this story, well, it ended up being five, three men were arrested by Beverly Hills detectives after it was discovered that they were bringing busloads of schoolchildren, schoolgirls, some as young as 13 or 14, up to a party house in Culver City.

And Culver City at this time, remind you, of course, was more or less, it was run by MGM.