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Released from his Warner contract, he signed a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox but was released after only a handful of films, one of which was the Charlie Chan movie Dead Men Tell. These roles did little to advance Reeves's career, and his contract with Warners was dissolved by mutual consent. He starred in a number of two-reel short subjects and appeared in several B-pictures, including two with future President of the United States Ronald Reagan and three with James Cagney ( Torrid Zone, The Fighting 69th, and The Strawberry Blonde). Between the start of production on Gone With the Wind and its release 12 months later, several films on his Warner contract were made and released, making Gone With the Wind his first film role, but his fifth film release. His Gone with the Wind screen credit reflects the change.
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Warner had him change his professional name to George Reeves. This part directly led to his being contracted to Warner Brothers. (Reeves and Crane both dyed their hair red to portray the Tarleton twins.) After Gone with the Wind was filmed, Reeves returned to the Pasadena Playhouse and was given the lead role in the play Pancho. It was a minor role, but he and Fred Crane were in the film's opening scene. Reeves's film career began in 1939 when he was cast as Stuart Tarleton (incorrectly listed in the film's credits as Brent Tarleton), one of Scarlett O'Hara's suitors in Gone with the Wind. They had no children and divorced 10 years later. They married on September 22, 1940, in San Gabriel, California, at the Church of Our Savior. While studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse, Reeves met his future wife, Ellanora Needles, great-great-granddaughter of John Robinson, who had been a circus magnate and founder of the John Robinson Circus. Reeves began acting and singing in high school and continued performing on stage as a student at Pasadena Junior College. Bessolo actually died March 4, 1944, at age 51, when his adopted son was well into his movie career. According to biographer Jim Beaver, Reeves did not know for several years that Bessolo was still alive. When he returned, his mother told him his stepfather had committed suicide. The Bessolos’ marriage lasted 15 years, ending in divorce, with the couple separating while Reeves was away visiting relatives. In 1927, when Reeves was 13, Frank Bessolo adopted him, and the boy took his stepfather's last name, becoming George Bessolo. Reeves reportedly never saw his father again. Reeves's father married Helen Schultz in 1925. There, by 1920, she had met and married Frank Joseph Bessolo (according to that year's federal census).
Later, Reeves's mother, who was of German descent, moved to California to stay with her sister. When the couple separated, soon after Reeves's birth, Reeves and his mother moved from Iowa to Ashland, Kentucky, to stay with relatives for a time and then to her home in Galesburg, Illinois. Reeves was born five months into their marriage. Reeves was born January 5, 1914, as George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, the son of Donald Carl Brewer and Helen Lescher.
The official finding was suicide, but some believe that he was murdered or the victim of an accidental shooting. His death at age 45 from a gunshot remains controversial.
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He is best known for portraying Superman in the television series Adventures of Superman (1952–1958). George Reeves (born George Keefer Brewer January 5, 1914 – June 16, 1959) was an American actor.
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