🍹 The Story Behind Child Actress Shirley Temple:
Ever wonder how the world’s most famous alcohol-free cocktail came to be?
In the 1930s, child star Shirley Temple was attending glamorous Hollywood events with older celebrities. Bartenders at Chasen's or the Brown Derby wanted to give her a special drink that looked just as fancy as the adult cocktails, minus the alcohol. They mixed ginger ale, a heavy splash of grenadine, and topped it with a maraschino cherry.
Shirley Temple documented several instances of inappropriate behavior by adult men in the film industry, primarily in her 1988 autobiography “Child Star.” These range from the sexualized content of her earliest roles to direct advances and exposures.
Before her major stardom, she appeared in a series of short films produced by Educational Pictures. These featured toddlers (including Temple) in adult, often sexualized roles and costumes, such as escorts/prostitutes trading kisses for lollipops, vamps, or showgirls in suggestive scenarios with heavy innuendo, and simulated adult situations. Temple later described them as “a cynical exploitation of [the performers’] childish innocence.”
Many of her 1930s Fox films involved adult male co-stars holding, carrying, dancing with, or interacting closely with her in ways that later critics (and some contemporaries) viewed as having pedophilic undertones. British author Graham Greene’s 1937 review of Wee Willie Winkie explicitly commented on her “adult appeal,” “well-developed rump,” and the response of middle-aged male fans; 20th Century Fox successfully sued him for libel. Temple herself later acknowledged that studios imposed adult overtones on her costumes, movements, and gestures.
Arthur Freed (MGM producer, age 11–12, 1940): During a private meeting about a potential contract (around the time of interest in her for The Wizard of Oz), Freed unzipped his trousers and exposed himself. Temple (who said she had never seen male anatomy) reacted with nervous laughter; he ordered her out of the office. Concurrently, Louis B. Mayer made an advance on her mother in another room. Temple left MGM after one film.
David O. Selznick in a meeting, he locked the door (via a remote switch) and made physical advances; she pulled free and left. She had been warned about him.
Other unnamed producers/directors propositioned her or framed advances as “workplace formalities”; she rejected them, sometimes physically. These accounts come from Temple’s own memoir and contemporary interviews (promoting the book). No criminal charges resulted at the time, consistent with the era’s lack of protections and power imbalances in Hollywood.
🚨 MICHAEL JACKSON’S SISTER TRIED TO EXPOSE HIS KILLER — WHOOPI GOLDBERG IMMEDIATELY SHUT HER DOWN
LaToya Jackson was on television and ready to talk.
She said someone else was inside Michael’s house the night he died.
She claimed she knew exactly who it was.
When the host asked her to name them, she started to go there… and Whoopi Goldberg immediately shut it down.
LaToya has long said her brother told her repeatedly, “They’re going to kill me.”
The reason, according to her, was his massive music publishing catalog including the Beatles rights.
She called Dr. Conrad Murray the fall guy in a larger conspiracy and said the amount of propofol in Michael’s system was enough to kill an elephant.
Fifteen years later the clip is circulating again and people can’t believe how close she came to saying the name on live TV.
Was LaToya about to expose something the industry still doesn’t want out… or was this just another conspiracy theory that needed to be stopped?
@ghosttwts_@AnshumatiSharma This is for views..they’re beans that were glued onto them…they are known for their horrible story lines and videos as well as their horrible acting skills
@BabyBash Those are the type of people you should stay away from because they instigate things and start things for entertainment because their lives are boring and miserable
Instead of watching my Facebook & twitter & worrying about it what I post…how about you worry about yourself & stop worrying about what the next bitch does or posts 🤗🙂 continue to be a stalking fan tho. It’s not cute tho 💁🏻♀️😆