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Article: A super seamy tale of George Reeves' death
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 29, 1996
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NEW YORK He could change the course of mighty rivers and bend steel
in his bare hands. But, disguised as actor George Reeves, Superman -
the 1950s incarnation - proved both sad and sadly mortal.
Reeves died in 1959 of a gunshot wound to the head, a demise
that went down in Hollywood's annals as self-inflicted. He'd been
depressed at being typecast, conventional wisdom went. But a
husband-wife investigative reporting team have dug into old files and
old jealousies and unearthed a different story.
Hollywood Kryptonite: The Bulldog, The Lady and The Death of
Superman (St. Martin's Press), by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger,
suggests that Reeves was the victim of Eddie and Toni Mannix. ...