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AT MGM David Stenn April 2003. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT... AT MGM. When Patricia Douglas was raped by an MGM salesman at a 1937 studio party, the 20-year-old dancer filed charges, taking on Hollywood’s most powerful institution. Today, as Douglas breaks a 65-year silence, the author exposes the perjury, bribes, and smear tactics used to destroy her.
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See More By David Stenn ». When Patricia Douglas was raped by an MGM salesman at a 1937 studio party, the 20-year-old dancer filed charges, taking on Hollywood's most powerful institution. Today ...
He located her and persuaded her to tell her story, which he first detailed in a 2003 Vanity Fair article, "It Happened One Night...At MGM." Stenn subsequently produced a documentary film on the subject, Girl 27 (2007), which incorporated footage of both the M-G-M exhibitors’ convention and of Douglas herself, who had agreed to appear on ...
It Happened One Night . . . at MGM When Patricia Douglas was raped by an MGM salesman at a 1937 studio party, the 20-year-old dancer filed charges, taking on Hollywood’s most powerful institution. David Stenn Vanity Fair Apr 2003 25 min Permalink
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Jul 27, 2007 · It’s based on the article “It Happened One Night … At MGM” that Stenn wrote for the April 2003 issue of Vanity Fair, which focused in detail on what happened to Douglas and how it ...
Girl 27 is a 2007 documentary film by writer/director David Stenn about the 1937 rape of dancer and occasional 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 ...
