Did Reevess mother hire private detective Louis Simo (Adrien Brody) to investigate Reevess death?
A. No, Louis Simo is a fictional character, created as an amalgam of Jerry Giesler, the Hollywood lawyer Reeves’s mother actually hired, and other investigators into Reeves’s death. Simo is shown in the film doggedly pursuing the truth even when Helen Bessolo, Reeves’s mother, loses interest. The reality is just the opposite. Helen Bessolo never accepted the police verdict of suicide. And even though Giesler dropped the case after a few months (by some accounts because he began to suspect a Mafia connection to Reeves’s death) Bessolo continued for years to agitate for a fuller investigation into her son’s death. Q. Was Reeves’s affair with Toni Mannix (Diane Lane) fictionalized here? A. No, they were together for almost ten years, and as shown in the film, George Reeves was very much a kept man. Toni bought him his house, his car, and paid virtually all of his bills. Co-stars remembered her constant presence on the Superman set, where she brought George his lunch every day, complete wi
