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Patricia Dorothy Douglas (March 5, 1917 – November 11, 2003) was a dancer and movie extra. Douglas was the subject of the documentary Girl 27 documenting her 1937 rape by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer salesman David Ross and the aftermath.
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.
With Patricia Douglas, Baby Peggy, Richard W. Bann, Kelly Brown. The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
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- Documentary, Biography
- David Stenn
- 2007-07-27
Mar 17, 2016 · Twenty year old Patricia Douglas was held down by 36 year-old Chicago bachelor David Ross while he poured whiskey down the terrified girl’s throat. She began vomiting and was still doing so when he brutally raped her.
Jun 5, 2024 · 'Girl 27' On June 4, 1937, Hollywood dancer and movie extra Patricia Douglas went public with her experience at an MGM exhibitors convention the previous month, where she alleged that a...
- Mark Peikert
Jan 19, 2007 · “Girl 27” is an uneven but strangely compelling documentary about a shocking and highly publicized event that disappeared into the mists of studio history.
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Patricia Douglas discusses the 1937 MGM scandal in which she and 100 other underage girls were tricked into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
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