Girl 27 (2007)
July 27, 2007Release Date
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Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Patricia Douglas
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 (archive footage)
Dorothy Dandridge
Self (archive footage)
Buron Fitts
Self - Los Angeles County District Attorney
Jodie Foster
Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable
Self (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy
Self (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
Self (archive footage)
Jack La Rue
Self (archive footage)
Stan Laurel
Self (archive footage)
Judy Lewis
Self - Daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young
Jennifer Lopez
Self (archive footage)
Tessa Davis
Editor
E.J. Mannix
Self (archive footage)
Louis B. Mayer
Self (archive footage)
Kelly McGillis
Self (archive footage)
Judd D. Minter
Self - Grandson of Patricia Douglas
Patti Minter
Self - Daughter of Patricia Douglas
David Ross
Self (archive footage)
Norma Shearer
Self (archive footage)
David Stenn
Self - Writer & Director / Writer / Director / Producer
Art Streiber
Self - Photographer
Michael Taitelman
Self - Attorney
Jack Terry
Self - Son of Eloise Spann
Greta Van Susteren
Self - Fox News Channel Anchor
Loretta Young
Self (archive footage)
Wallis Simpson
Self (archive footage / uncredited)
King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage / uncredited)
Jeff Robeff
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Hal Lindes
Music
Tobi Holland
Makeup Artist
Tessa Davis
Editor
Peter B. Good
Director of Photography
Kris Smith
Additional Photography
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Girl 27 is a 2007 documentary film by writer/director David Stenn about the 1937 rape of dancer and occasional movie extra Patricia Douglas (1917β2003) at a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 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 date rape by Clark Gable during the production of The Call of the Wild.
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.