Girl 27 is a 2007 documentary film by writer/director David Stenn about the 1937 rape of dancer and occasional movie extra Patricia Douglas (1917–2003) at a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer exhibitors' convention, the front-page news stories that followed, and the studio's subsequent cover-up of the crime.

[2] Stenn uses first-person interviews and vintage film footage and music to explore the political power of movie studios in 1930s Hollywood, as well as public attitudes toward sexual assault that discouraged victims from coming forward.

Stenn, first came across the story while researching Bombshell, his 1993 biography of Jean Harlow, and spent a decade in pursuit of the facts relating to the Douglas case.

The revelations regarding sexual misconduct by certain powerful men in the entertainment industry, that received widespread media coverage beginning in late 2017, brought renewed attention to Girl 27, which earned fresh recognition for the documentary evidence it provided of the perennial existence of the systemic problem.

In a New York Times op-ed piece in January 2018, Stenn made the point that, "Injustice can thrive only in silence, and finally the story of Patricia Douglas and others like her now resonates in Hollywood and beyond.