Review – Girl 27

Here’s another chapter of Hollywood history that I’m sure Tinseltown would prefer to forget. In 1937, the newly-Hays-Code-regulated movie industry was hit with an ugly scandal when aspiring actress Patricia Douglas reported that she’d been raped at a party for MGM executives. Documentary maker David Stenn somehow managed to find Douglas decades later living a sad, lonely life cooped up by herself in an apartment. An uncomfortably large amount of the movie is about Stenn, and he also throws in a couple of other Golden Age Hollywood scandals as if trying to establish himself as some kind of latter-day Kenneth Anger. Still, Douglas’s story is interesting enough when Stenn bothers to tell it. Mildly amusing