Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
This Superman Actor is Dead - The George Reeves Story
20 Jul 2025
George Reeves, the star of Adventures of Superman (1952–58), died in his Los Angeles home, from a single gunshot wound to the head. With the official ruling being suicide, his death sparked controversy fueled by inconsistencies such as missing fingerprints on the gun, no powder residue on his hands, a spent cartridge found beneath his body despite witnesses reporting only one shot, and accounts of multiple shots heard that night . At the time, Reeves had recently been engaged to Leonore Lemmon, and rumors linked him to affairs—most notably with Toni Mannix, whose husband Eddie Mannix was a powerful MGM executive rumored to have ties to organized crime
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