George Reeves: Elusive Truth, Absent Justice, and the American Way...Hollywood Style
About this episode
The episode explores the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of actor George Reeves, who portrayed Superman in the 1950s.
Superman may be more powerful than a locomotive, but George Reeves, the actor who famously portrayed the Man of Steel on TV in the 1950s, was very much a mortal man. Did George Reeves really take his own life in June 1959, as the official report stated? Was he actually murdered by an impulsive girlfriend? Or was his death a highly orchestrated hit by one of Hollywood’s most infamous fixers? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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