Shirley Temple abused by producers and scammed by her own parents
America’s sweetheart Shirley -Temple Captured hearts worldwide with her charming smile and innocence with a soft face but in real life, she brought her childhood without a friend, alone and abused by a series of Hollywood-Bigwigs, through Radaronline.com can reveal.
Temple, who died at the age of 85 in 2014, was also scammed by her own father, who wasted her millions and won her only $ 30,000.
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The mother of Shirley Temple forced her to rehearse lines before bedtime instead of reading fairy tales.
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An insider revealed: “Her childhood was filled with misery. She worked long hours and was mistreated by producers and studio heads. But her parents told her that they put money aside for her, and one day she would see that it was all worthwhile.”
Shirley’s mother, Gertrude Temple, was a dominant stage mother who pushed Shirley in Showbizs when she was only three years old.
Spotted by Talent Scouts, she was signed for a contract for a series of films called the Baby burlesks.
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Operated and paid slave wages through small education studios, Shirley earned only $ 10 a day before playing the leadership and was cruelly punished for the least misstep.
Forbidden with parents forbidden from the set and different welfare workers derived, Studio -Task Masters forced Shirley and other child actors to sit on a block of ice cream in a diabolical “penalty box” if they turned out to be difficult while filming.
Incredibly, Shirley credits the terrible treatment to make her a better performer.
She said the abuse learned her important lessons: beware. Time is money. Do what you are told. Do it the first time.
As an old professional at the tender age of five, Shirley was invited to audition for the film Get up and cheer! And was signed for a deal that paid $ 150 a week to Shirley and $ 25 to her mother.
She then performed in nine films in 1934, and in 1935 she earned $ 2,500 a week, plus another $ 15,000 per completed film that was put in a confidence for her.
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Temple lived in seclusion, driver daily to a fort-like studio life.
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Although lively and happy on the screen, her childhood was plagued by loneliness.
She was not allowed to have friends, and every day she was driven in a bulletproof limousine “to a house with protective devices and surrounded by a high wall,” an insider shared.
Once a year she had a birthday party with some ‘friends’.
“There were children of people in the studio,” she admitted. “It was fun but impersonal.”
For Shirley, life was all work, and instead of fairy tales before bed, her mother would go over her lines to film the next day.
Overworked, the child would make the lines backwards until she drove asleep, with her hair rolled up in 56 pin curls, so she would look at the photo-perfect the next morning.
But when Shirley reached adolescence, her nightmare got worse: she had to constantly fight against the progress of perverse middle -aged men.
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The Casting Bank of Arthur Freed ended when the young Shirley ran away challengingly.
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In 1941, when Shirley was 13, she and her mother visited the MGM office. Shirley was brought to producer Arthur Freed, while her mother was sent to see Studiohoofd Louis B. Mayer.
Freed, known for having an ‘adventurous casting bank’, soon began to make sexual progress to young Shirley.
When she resisted, he threw her out of his office.
In the meantime, Mayer made his movements on Gertrude – who pushed him away. Fortunately, Shirley had already signed with the studio, so there were no career.
In another incident, Gone with the wind Mastermind David O. Selznick actually chased Shirley around his desk. But she managed to avoid the progress of the crawl.
Shirley, 17, would like to escape her Hollywood Hell, married B-film actor John Agar-Die turned out to be a hard-drinking, feminine woman-clothing. Shirley became so desperate that she almost killed herself, but decided to separate the CAD instead – what she did in 1950.
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David O. Selznick once chased Shirley around his desk – another predator in sight.
But another destruction was waiting for her. After meeting and getting married by businessman Charles Black in 1950, she asked her father for the money that had been reserved for her over the years.
She soon discovered that the $ 3.2 million she had earned was wasted and paid wages for employees of Temple -household household households.
A scarce $ 28,000 remained, who begged her mother to leave with her father to rule “because it keeps him going.”
