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This is a seriously good documentary about Patricia Douglas, who worked as a chorus girl for MGM in 1937--back when MGM owned Hollywood. She, along with a lot of other young girls working for the studio, was tricked into being entertainment for some boozed up MGM salesman at a convention, and while there she was raped. When she--at seventeen--took the case to court, MGM systematically destroyed her. In fact, pretty much the whole world let her down (as it does today for most rape victims) and the movie doesn't shy away from showing the effect this betrayal had on her even 65 years later.
It's a compelling story, and also a disturbing glimpse of the dark side of old Hollywood, when most of the chorus girls and contract players dealt with abuse and harassment on a daily basis. And yet, interviewing the children of those involved as well as Patricia herself, the film has a tremendous amount of compassion for everyone, and for their motives in doing what the did.
It's a compelling story, and also a disturbing glimpse of the dark side of old Hollywood, when most of the chorus girls and contract players dealt with abuse and harassment on a daily basis. And yet, interviewing the children of those involved as well as Patricia herself, the film has a tremendous amount of compassion for everyone, and for their motives in doing what the did.