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Podcast: Timesuck with Dan Cummins
Episode: Short Suck #38: Hollywood’s Biggest Forgotten Scandal: Patricia Douglas
Description: Patricia Douglas was a young dancer and an extra working in Hollywood during its so-called Golden Era when she was tricked into attending a party Tinseltown's most powerful studio, MGM, was throwing for the salesmen who were making it rich on May 5th, 1937. At this party, she was dragged into the parking lot and brutally raped by one on of those salesmen. The studio would bury her assault... but decades later her truth would finally come to light and help lead to much needed change in the movie industry. Â For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, h...