Annakeara Stinson remembers the unnerving experience of being a young girl and watching her mother die, though only in a movie. In Harper's Bazaar, Stinson explains that her mother, Diana Davidson, gets fatally shot in the opening scene of Dirty Harry in 1971. Davidson didn't receive a mention in the film's credits, and Stinson finds that to be a metaphor for how Hollywood used and then forgot her mom. In the piece, she recounts how her confident mother walked into the offices of Seventeen magazine as a young woman and convinced them she could be a model. Soon after, her modeling and acting career seemed to be taking off—until going off track after a rape at a powerful agent's Long Island party.
These days, "stories of young people sidetracked or ruined by sexual violence are an indelible part of the cultural fabric, looming, as American as the Hollywood sign," writes Stinson. "All those women who came out during the #MeToo movement, all the Epstein girls—I know exactly how they felt," her mother tells her. Davidson never got her Hollywood career, with family framing her later retreats and messy relationships as flaky self-sabotage rather than trauma fallout. Davidson's life now—remarried, rooted in Vermont, doting grandmother—isn't a tragedy, Stinson stresses, but a survival story. And as for that uncredited Dirty Harry role, Stinson herself added her mother to the credited roles on the film's Wikipedia page. Read the full story.
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