5 Celebrity Fixes By The Real Life Eddie Mannix
1. Paul Bern
In 1932 Director Paul Bern married the studio’s biggest star, Jean Harlow, despite already having a wife in New York. One night, neighbours heard a man and woman arguing in the Hollywood Hills. There was a sound of breaking glass and then a gunshot. Bern lay dead in his bathroom with a bullet through his head. Mannix arrived and knew instantly what had happened; Bern’s first wife was in town and when they argued, she ended up killing him. The scandal would have ruined Jean Harlow and the studio, so with the help of the police (who were on Mannix’s payroll) they staged the murder as a suicide and it was never questioned.
Hail, Caesar! is out now on Digital HD™ and on Blu-ray™ & DVD on 11th July, courtesy of Universal Pictures (UK).