Girl 27 (2007)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

David Stenn

Writer:

David Stenn (writer)

Release Date:

27 July 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

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. |

Plot Keywords:

Underage | Mother Daughter Relationship | Newspaper Headline | Sexism | Character Assassination

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Baby Peggy	...	Herself (as Peggy Montgomery)
Richard Bann	...	Himself
Kelly Brown	...	Himself
Ned Comstock	...	Himself
Joan Crawford	...	Herself (archive footage)
Patricia Douglas	...	Herself
Buron Fitts	...	Himself (archive footage)
Clark Gable	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jean Harlow	...	Herself (archive footage)
Judy Lewis	...	Herself
E.J. Mannix	...	Himself (archive footage)
Louis B. Mayer	...	Himself (archive footage)
Judd D. Minter	...	Himself (as Judd Minter)
Patti Minter	...	Herself
Norma Shearer	...	Herself (archive footage)
David Stenn	...	Himself
Michael Taitelman	...	Himself
Jack Terry	...	Himself
Greta Van Susteren	...	Herself

Runtime:

USA:86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Company:

TLR Productions

Trivia:

If you freeze shots of the hand-written call sheet early in the film, some names of the other extras can be found on the IMDb. They include Eleanor Bayley (5), likely Amber Norman (17), Nancy Deshon (24), Ruth Day (26), Ginger Wyatt (29), Darleen Hackley (aka Darlyn Heckley, 33), Vivian Mason (54), Patsy Perrin (59), Sue Gomes (80), Nancy Page (83), Peggy Campbell (86, probably Jean Stevens), Collette Merton (96), and Thelma Joel (97).

Movie Connections:

Features Night World (1932)

Soundtrack:

Blues in the Groove

Pretty moderate, and by that I mean damned awful

The real shame of this ghastly little film is the fact that it could have been - in the hands of a skillful director - a fascinating insight into the power movie moguls once held and the corrupting influence of money of family relations.

Unfortunately it ends up as nothing more than a vanity project, a monument to the director/star's colossal ego. Stenn (the writer of the honestly rather better Cool as Ice film about ludicrous white rapper Vanilla Ice) dominates the film with his dreadful personality and self-serving tributes to himself.

Save yourself the time and money and give this stinker a miss.