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Hollywoodland – Who shot and killed Superman in June 1959? Was actor George Reeves’s death as the media originally reported a suicide, the sad end of a popular TV hero (mine as well) despairing his loss of control over his life and film career? His first acting role occurred in Gone with the Wind, and his last part was cut from From Here to Eternity (because during a prescreening the audience reacted to his appearance as Superman rather than to his character from the James Jones novel). Or did his fiancé Lenore Lemmon (Robin Tunney) kill him after he told her he was calling off their wedding? Or maybe his long-time mistress Toni Mannix (Diane Lane) out of jealousy for his affection for the younger woman or her husband, MGM executive Eddie Mannix (Bob Hoskins), whacked TV’s man-of-steel (played by Ben Affleck and sometimes looking very much like Reeves).
A down-on-his-luck private detective Louis Simo (Adrien Brody) working for Reeves’s mother, Helen Bessolo (Lois Smith), tries to find out. “Since when do suicides miss twice and start over,” he asks while looking at bullet holes in Reeves’s bedroom floor. Frequent flashbacks effectively intersperse the ongoing action to fill in Reeves’s life story. Based on actual events. 1959 was a hard year for me as an eight-year-old turning nine. On January 21st Ben Stilz shot dead Carl Switzer, who had been Alfalfa in the Our Gang comedies. Was it a justified act of self-defense or murder? The story seems as complicated and open to speculation as George Reeves’s death.
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