The Ghost of George Reeves

Reeves would eventually find himself starring with Claudette Colbert (the Sandra Bullock of her day) in Paramount’s So Proudly We Hail (1942), a war film made shortly before he was drafted into the real U.S. Army Air Force in 1943. The actor remained stateside, with duties that included appearing in both the Broadway and Hollywood film versions of Winged Victory, a USAAF production, and making training films. The Hollywood he returned to after his discharge in 1945 was an industry town in transition, with fewer production companies making fewer films. Instead of appearing opposite such stars as Jimmy Cagney, Ronald Regan, and Merle Oberon as he once had, George was now starring in Saturday morning costumed serials, Westerns, TV anthology programs, and on radio. <a href="https://medium.com/@pkupperberg/the-ghost-of-george-reeves-4b5f1fa1b33b">Website</a>