Hugh gravitt was arrested after he hit Margaret mitchell. A police officer at the scene later testified that he had smelled alcohol on gravitt's breath. Gravitt himself did not deny that he had been drinking, but no one gave him a brathlizer for goodness sake. The man had over 20 previous traffic citations. His license should have been revoked years before and in the mentality of the time, the driver was irrelevant.
A legendary Hollywood mogul, a famous author, a fatal drunk driving accident, and a brilliant bit of screenwriting, left on the cutting room floor. Revisionist History engages in a pop culture what-if experiment about the 1937 version of A Star is Born.
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