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Girl 27 is a 2007 documentary film about the 1937 rape of dancer and sometime movie extra Patricia Douglas (1917-2003) at an M-G-M exhibitors' convention, the front-page news stories that followed, and the studio's subsequent cover-up of the crime. Also covered in the film are a similar assault on singer Eloise Spann and her subsequent suicide, and the better-known scandal involving actress Loretta Young and her "adopted" daughter Judy Lewis, the product of her affair with Clark Gable during the production of The Call of the Wild.
The filmmaker, David Stenn, uses first-person interviews and vintage film footage and music to explore the political power of movie studios in 1930s Hollywood, as well as public attitudes toward sexual assault that discouraged victims from coming forward. The filmmaker's dogged pursuit of Douglas and their resulting friendship is a consistent theme throughout.
Original Release
07/27/2007
US Release
07/27/2007
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Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Patricia Douglas | Self - Girl 27 / Self |
| Baby Peggy | Self |
| Richard W. Bann | Self - Hal Roach Historian |
| Kelly Brown | Self - Son of William JF Brown |
| Ned Comstock | Self - USC Archivist |
| Joan Crawford | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Dorothy Dandridge | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Buron Fitts | Self - Los Angeles Country District Attorney 1928-1940 / Self - Los Angeles County District Attorney |
| Jodie Foster | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Clark Gable | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Patricia Douglas | Self - Girl 27 / Self |
| Baby Peggy | Self |
| Richard W. Bann | Self - Hal Roach Historian |
| Kelly Brown | Self - Son of William JF Brown |
| Ned Comstock | Self - USC Archivist |
| Joan Crawford | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Dorothy Dandridge | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Buron Fitts | Self - Los Angeles Country District Attorney 1928-1940 / Self - Los Angeles County District Attorney |
| Jodie Foster | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Clark Gable | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Oliver Hardy | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Jean Harlow | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Jack La Rue | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Stan Laurel | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Judy Lewis | Self - Daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young |
| Jennifer Lopez | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| E.J. Mannix | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Louis B. Mayer | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Kelly McGillis | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Judd D. Minter | Self - Grandson of Patricia Douglas |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| David Stenn | Producer |
| Lindsay Webster | Producer |
Editors
