Shirley got bounced from MGM ostensibly because "Kathleen," her first and only film there, was not a hit. She was replaced in the Busby Berkeley musical "Babes on Broadway" by Virginia Weidler. This at least spared Shirley from having to join co-stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in donning blackface for the film's Minstrel Show finale.
"Babes on Broadway" was almost certainly the film Temple referred to in that clip. as it was produced by Arthur Freed, the executive who exposed himself to her. Temple was as shielded, protected, and naive as a girl of her age could be kept. It was just as well she left MGM with her innocence mainly intact.
Shirley got bounced from MGM ostensibly because "Kathleen," her first and only film there, was not a hit. She was replaced in the Busby Berkeley musical "Babes on Broadway" by Virginia Weidler. This at least spared Shirley from having to join co-stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in donning blackface for the film's Minstrel Show finale.
"Babes on Broadway" was almost certainly the film Temple referred to in that clip. as it was produced by Arthur Freed, the executive who exposed himself to her. Temple was as shielded, protected, and naive as a girl of her age could be kept. It was just as well she left MGM with her innocence mainly intact.
Thank you for sharing this. How quickly Hollywierd forgets their past and their present while trying to play the self righteous card. They fear truth.