Girl 27

I just watched a very interesting and in-depth documentary on the shady days of MGM. It's the story of a young girl, Patricia Douglas, who was an MGM extra and at a wild company party got raped. Nobody believed her and those who knew the truth quickly covered it up. Essentially, no one has ever heard of this story--until now.

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Watch it on Netflix

Story that inspired the film (Vanity Fair Article)

In 1937, 20-year-old dancer Patricia Douglas was raped by an MGM salesman at a wild studio party. Though she brought suit, the studio smeared her and got the complaint dismissed. After 65 years of silence, Douglas told her story to David Stenn for Vanity Fair ("It Happened One Night … at MGM," April 2003). On November 10, 2003, when Stenn phoned Douglas and read her the letters to the editor his article had prompted, she told him, "Thank you. I can go now." She died the following day. Stenn's documentary about the case, Girl 27—which includes video footage of his interviews with Douglas—premiered at Sundance in January and is out on DVD this month.