12 minutes agoAuthor: Ifat Qureshi
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Today, the story of the story of Hollywood and TV’s first superman’s death will be known in the unheard story, whose mystery is unresolved even after 76 years.
16 June 1959
George Raves had a party in Los Angeles’ house. George’s fiancé Leonore was also present at this party, including many people from Hollywood industry. All the dancing songs were drunk in the midst of the songs. At around 1 pm, George suddenly left the party running in the ground floor and went to his bedroom located in the first floor. At around one and a half, the guests heard the sound of firing. When the guests reached the top, everyone’s screams came out after seeing the terrible scene of the bedroom.
George did not have clothes in his body, he was lying on the bed on his stomach and blood was blood on the bed. Half the body was touching the ground and the feet were touching the ground. The police was called, in the initial investigation, it was considered suicide, but the evidence found on the occasion was telling something else. Three bullets were found in the room, while George had only one bullet in Kanpatti and the voice also came to the sound of only one bullet. The medical expert believed that he himself did not shoot, as gun powder was not found anywhere from his body or room, which was a big question in itself. In such a situation, the suspicion was directly on his fiance. According to the statement of the guests, he also had an argument with George, but there was no evidence against him.
Legendary actor George’s life was often in controversy. He had an affair with the wife of the owner of a large production house. In such a situation, his murder angle was also investigated. But today 76 years of his death passed, but the exact cause of his death is not clear even today.
Read in 3 chapters of unheard stories and 3 unresolved theries related to the mysterious death of George Reeves and related to it-
Soon after the body of George Reeves, everyone informed the Los Angeles Police Department. The room search began just after the corpse was sent for post -mortem, which was extremely shocking.
First suspicious thing- A gun was found lying near George’s naked corpse. Forensic experts found that there were no fingerprints in that gun. The investigation team’s question was whether it is possible that a person had done guns after shooting himself, or he had caught guns with the help of any clothes or gloves before death, if yes, if yes, he must have been so conscious after being shot on his head that he could take off the gloves or hide the cloth, because the corpse neither found any gloves, no cloth.
Second suspicious thing- If George Reeves launched the gun, why there was no gun powder around his hand or face. Because there was no scope to clean it.
Third suspicious thing- The bullet from which George Reeves died to the investigation team was recovered from the sealing of the bedroom, while its cover was found under George’s naked corpse.
Fourth suspicious thing- George was shot a bullet, but three bullets were recovered from his room. All the guests present in the party also said that they had heard the sound of firing only once. So was air firing done 2 times, if yes, why did not anyone hear the voice. If the silencer was used in the gun, then before the voice came while shooting for the third time, the killer or George must have removed the silencer from the gun. Because all three bullets were of the same gun, which was found near George’s corpse.
Fifth suspicious thing- There was no evidence of force entry in the bedroom or the presence of any other person. According to the statement of the guests, he went to the room after hearing the sound of the bullet. The door was closed from inside, which had to be broken. At the same time, some guests say that the door was not locked, it was opened with a push.
According to the post -mortem report, George died after being shot. Now the police started taking statements of guests.
George’s fiance’s statement- Leonor Lemon said in a statement to the police that when the bullet was shot, it was with other guests in the living room.
Bill Bliss’s statement present in the party- The bullet fired at 1:30 pm, when they all reached up, George’s door was locked from inside. He broke the door and saw the corpse. By then other guests had also arrived.
George’s statement of co-star Fred Crane- George had not worked with the film Gone with the Wind and his close friend Fred Crane was not in the party, but he often visited his house parties. After this accident, he spoke to the Bill Bliss and Million Trent present in the party. Both of them had told that at the time when the sound of firing came, George’s fiancé Leonor came down nervous by the stairs and said that I was down to say that I was below. And his behavior also looked quite different. In such a situation, Fred Crane expressed suspicion that Leonore was in the room at the time of firing, or around.
George Raves played Superman in the Adventure of Superman TV series.
Bill Bliss, who was present in the party, also told Fred that George Reeves looked very angry at that party. He had drunk heavily. He also had an argument between drunk and fiancé Leonor, after which George went to the room. The relationship between the two was stressful.
Based on the guests present in the party, the police suspected George’s fiancé Leonor Lemon, but the police could not take Lionor under investigation due to lack of fingerprints in the room and lack of force entry marks. Leonor also told that George was very upset due to lack of desired work in films. He had become very irritable. After a long investigation, the Los Angeles Police called it a suicide. However, many people were against his conclusion.
His mother got the case re-fired after the police termed George Reav’s death as suicide. He believed that George could not commit suicide, he was murdered under a conspiracy. In such a situation, the case was re-open and George was again post-mortem. The cause of death also came to be shot, but this time something new was found in the post -mortem. George had some bruises on the head and stomach, but the reason could not be clear.
Photo of George Reeves taken during the funeral.
George’s friends and actors Alan Lad and Gig Young also rejected suicide, while Rory Calhon also told the media that no one in Hollywood is ready to consider George’s death as a suicide. After an investigation of about one and a half months, the case was closed again due to lack of evidence.
During the investigation, the relationship and breakup of George Reeves and Tony Manics was also very much discussed. It was said that Tony’s husband Eddie Manics could have a hand in the suspicious death of George. Actually, AD Manix was Hollywood’s largest production house MGM President. He was one of the most powerful people of Hollywood. At that time, the mafia had a profound effect in Hollywood and it was believed that AD Manix had strong relations with them.
While President of MGM Studio, he used to work to protect big actors associated with this production from scandals, so that the image of his production remained clean. It was also public that Eddie and his wife Tony’s wedding was named mere name. Eddie had given his wife open freedom to have relations with other actors.
George Reeves met Tony while working in the popular series Adventure of Superman. In a few weeks, the closeness between the two started increasing. Tony’s husband Eddie had no objection to this relationship. Over time, Tony became very serious for George. She used to give them many luxury gifts. He also gifted George a luxury car and a house. In some reports, George’s success was also credited to Tony and his high profile contacts.
George Reeves at an event with Tony Manics.
This relationship lasted for about 8 years. George began to feel that Tony was very controlled. This was the reason that George decided to breakup with him. When she told this to Tony, she broke badly. She did not want to separate from George.
Tony’s husband Eddie was also very angry with this, as the news of both of them became scandals in Hollywood. Along with the couple, the studio was also infamous. But when George died, Tony and AD were not mentioned anywhere. However, about 37 years after George’s death, a book came, which again made George’s death into the headlines. The name of the book was Hollywood Cryptonite: The Bulldog, The Lady and the Death of Superman. Its writer was Sam Kaishner and Nancy Seanberger.
Book Hollywood Cryptonite cover.
It was written in the book that there are AD Manics behind George’s death. He gave his betel nut and conspired to murder with the help of his relationship with his mafia. However, the police never investigated this angle, nor was there any strong evidence related to this claim. After a breakup from Tony, in 1959, George Reeve engaged with Sochelight Leonor.
George Reeves was one of DC’s most popular characters
George Raves played the role of Class Cantt in the 1952 television series Adventure of Superman. Due to which he got fame in Hollywood. Apart from this, he was part of the best films like Gone with the Wind, Blood and Sands, Jungle Jim. George Raves was awarded the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 after his death.
George is among DC’s most popular Superman.
The superman character of George Reeves was created through computer graphics in DC Exchange film The Flash, released in 2023. However, his scenes were very criticized.
Hollywood film Hollywood is made on George Reav’s life
The film Hollywood was released in 2006, in which Bain Extacker has played George Reeves and Diana Lane has played Tony Manics. The film is based on the investigation of private detective on his death mystery.
The film was in the Ban Employees lead role in Hollywoodland.
The film shows many possible causes of his death.
First possible reason- George Raves shot himself during anger and intoxicated fiancé.
Second possible reason- MGM President Eddie Manics hired George by hiring contract killer when his wife Tony’s heart broke.
Third possible reason- Tony Manix killed George to avenge the breakup, as she had duplicate keys in George’s house and was aware of the way behind the house, causing the guests to avoid the eyes of the guests and reached the bedroom. In which Eddie helped the wife.
Fourth possible reason- George committed suicide due to his career failure and troubles of personal life.
Released in the year 2006, the film collected a collection of $ 16 million i.e. 142 crores. Bain Eaflack for the film was nominated at the Golden Globe Award.