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Shirley Temple Talked Sexual, Emotional Abuse During Her Career, Was She Surrounded By Pedophiles?
Shirley Temple will forever be associated with sweetness, her cute songs, and dance, as well as the song “Good Ship Lollipop” but is there a darker side to America’s most famous child starlet?
Many people believe that Shirley Temple was surrounded by pedophiles and have gone so far to say her early movie roles from the 1930s were little more than fodder for perverts. Shirley Temple wrote an autobiography
Child Star where she described several instances of sexual harassment at the hands of Hollywood studio heads.
Judy Garland was Called a “Pig in Pigtails” and Forced to Starve Herself
Garland was cast in her first film in 1936 when she was only 14 years old. During the production of
Pigskin Parade, Mayer and his fellow producers didn’t shy away from telling Garland how she looked like “a pig in pigtails” when they viewed her through cameras. It was then that they put her on a strict diet, restricting her calorie intake to near starvation.
The young girl who had only just entered her teens would then soon start her habits of starving herself and then bingeing as she tried to satisfy the hungry producers who had unrealistic standards for her.
She would be presented food which would be taken away before she could have a bite, they would put her on a variety of drugs to speed her up or slow her down, and they even put her through obscene sexual abuse at the young age of just 16 years.
