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Oct 16, 2017 · And an 11-year-old Shirley Temple got her first — and, she thought, hilarious — peek at the male anatomy courtesy of MGM producer Arthur Freed, who once dropped his pants during a meeting.
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- From Age Three, Temple Endured Horrific Work Conditions
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- Temple Constantly Fought Off Sexual Predators
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- Her First Love Was An Abusive Alcoholic
- The Truth About Shirley Temple’s “Wizard of Oz” Connection
When Shirley Temple appeared in 1932’s War Babies — her first speaking role — she was only three years old. The film was one of the Baby Burlesks, a series of eight shorts that satirized major motion pictures. The film is set in Buttermilk Pete’s Cafe where the child performers dance, play music, and drink milk. Shirley is an exotic dancer and does...
Shirley Temple achieved international stardom with the release of Bright Eyesin 1934. When she was 12 years old, Shirley signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Shirley Temple describes in her autobiographythat on her first visit to MGM, she met one of the studio’s producers, Arthur Freed. During the interview he unzipped his trousers and exposed himself ...
Anita Colby was artistic director for producer David O. Selznick of Gone with the Wind fame. She warned Temple to be careful if she “found him (Selznick) in stockings.” Temple writes in her autobiography Child Star that this gave her “the impression that casual sex could be a condition of employment” with Selznick. She also tells a hair-raising sto...
Temple launched her prolific acting career when she was a child, but the star’s age didn’t stop men from making sexual advances toward her. The little girl was regularly groped, threatened, and terrorized by men. After she refused a Hollywood producer for his advances, he responded “Look, I’m going to be a big executive. We’re going to have to get ...
The singing, dancing, acting cutie-patootie retired from the limelight at the ripe old age of twenty-two and when she did she discovered that she only had forty-four thousand dollars left in her bank account! At her peak, Temple commanded $10,000 a week. One can imagine her surprise when, as an adult, she discovered that despite having earned $3.2 ...
Not everyone was a Shirley Temple fan. The novelist Graham Greene, who was also a film critic, was sued by 20th Century Fox for his review of “Wee Willie Winkie” in the magazine Night and Day, which he edited. The review hadn’t been published in the U.S., but the studio and Temple’s representatives sued Greene and Night and Dayin British court for ...
Stardom threatened Shirley Temple in many ways. In 1939, a woman who thought Temple had stolen her daughter’s soul tried to assassinate her during a radio performance of “Silent Night.” The woman believed that shooting Temple would release her daughter’s soul from captivity, but thankfully, she was unsuccessful.
Shirley Temple’s sunny innocence was a welcome antidote to dark days of scarce employment and bread lines during the Depression years of 1935 to 193. But her hold on the troubled nation’s imagination also sparked outlandish but persistent rumors. Some claimed her hair was fake. Others believed the tiny preteen was actually a 30-year-old midget who ...
In 1943, 15-year-old Temple met John Agar, an Army Air Corps sergeant who became an actor. Shirley Temple married him at age 17 on September 19, 1945 before 500 guests in an Episcopal ceremony at Wilshire Methodist Church in Los Angeles. According to Temple’s autobiography, after vows were exchanged, things went from bad to worse. The handsome acto...
As a child, Temple was an avid reader, and especially enjoyed The Wizard of Ozseries written by L. Frank Baum. In Child Star, she says she was so absorbed in the stories of Oz, that when her mother suggested she could play Dorothy, she replied that she really just wanted to meet Dorothy. But after four consecutive years as the queen of the box-offi...
Nov 3, 2023 · Russell Brand, the English comedian who has courted controversy for his whole career, was accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in New York on Friday. The lawsuit was filed by a woman...
Jun 29, 2003 · Freed's career from then on might be summed up as ''Babes in Oz.'' On the one hand, Freed kept Mayer happy with Mickey-and-Judy pictures and other lucrative but less-than-epochal items.
Oct 14, 2017 · The curly-haired superstar — hailed by F.D.R. for helping America get through the Depression — was taken to the office of Arthur Freed, an associate producer on “The Wizard of Oz.” After...
Oct 17, 2017 · Louis B. Mayer allegedly sexually assaulted teenage Judy Garland; Arthur Freed allegedly exposed himself to then-twelve-year-old Shirley Temple; Harry Cohn and Daryl Zanuck reportedly...
