The Sinister, Untold History of Shirley Temple
This year, Netflix released Andrew Dominik's Marilyn Monroe biopic, Blonde, with the lead being played by Ana de Armas. From the moment the film hit the festival scene, it had audiences talking about Monroe's mistreatment in Hollywood and her celebrated y...
My mother won a "Shirley Temple lookalike" contest when she was a child, and the prize was to be flown to Hollywood for a screen test, but my mother refused that prize, citing what an evil place Hollywood was! This was the late 1930's!
Wise woman.
Of course, "evil" back in those days just meant that adultery and "partying" were going on with the stars :) (I don't think there was any suspicion regarding pedophilia back then)
Here's a part of that link I posted:
"The sexual exploitation of Shirley Temple might have been horrific on screen, but things were so much worse behind the scenes. During the production of her many films, Temple and her fellow child actors endured an abundance of both physical and sexual abuse. In her 1988 book: Child Star: An Autobiography, Temple described the Baby Burlesks series as "a cynical exploitation of our childish innocence." She also explained that if any of the preschool age children misbehaved on set, they were locked in a windowless booth called the "punishment box" and be forced to sit on a solid block of ice for extended periods of time. Temple was sent to the "punishment box" several times but claimed it did "no lasting damage" to her psyche. Temple described these production sets having a very strong, present, "time is money" attitude. This led to her being forced to work while injured on multiple occasions, one time working a single day after a serious eardrum operation.
I am always horrified reading the story about the girl from the poltergeist. Lord have mercy on us sinners.
Olsen twins
She became a conservative pol and diplomat.
https://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/shirley-temple-politics-103371
Just Garland's mom sold her off, repeatedly to older Hollywood men.
Supposedly, Natalie Wood's mother dropped her off at a motel to be raped by Kirk Douglas. Several people (including her sister Lana Wood and Dennis Hooper) have talked about it, and biographer Suzanne Finstad wrote about it.
In her own words:
https://youtube.com/shorts/unejzyb2XA4?si=U32onxHc7nWT1VCe
Heather O'Rourke RIP.
Steven Spielberg had nothing to do with her deaths from natural causes.
I am sure lo g before Shirley Temple.
“Hollywood “. Soooo close.