Some time ago, there were rumors that Justin Bieber was sexually abused by a music industry producer when he was young. This has not yet been confirmed, but it seems to be common knowledge that Hollywood child stars have entered the entertainment industry like a big dye vat too early and are treated unfairly.
Shirley Temple was voted the 18th greatest actress of the century by American cinema. She made her debut on the screen at the age of 3, starred in more than 20 movies at the age of 6, and won the Oscar at the age of 7, becoming the highest-paid actor in the world at that time.
Behind the glamorous, Temple was deprived of his childhood early, worked 18 hours a day, was instructed to shoot sexually suggestive shots when he was ignorant of the world, and had to face the unspoken rules of the producer......
Sue Lane is the heroine of the movie Lolita, which tells the story of an adult man who is full of sexual and love fantasies about underage girls.
She sighed: "I played Lolita at the age of 14, and at the age of 15 it became a sex symbol, and it will be difficult to try to live a normal and healthy life in the future." ”
Parents see their children as a tool to make money, a hidden unspoken rule of Hollywood...... Behind the fall of Hollywood child stars, there are too many warnings for viewers.
In the 20s of the 20th century, there was a golden age of drunkenness in the United States. In 1914, the wages of Ford employees rose from $2.5 a day to $5 (one dollar at the time was equivalent to $25.5 today), and in renminbi terms, the working class almost lived on a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan.
Shirley Temple was born in the late '20s, just in time to awkwardly miss the most prosperous period of the United States, entering the era of the Great Depression. Tons of fresh milk are poured into the river, 25% of workers are facing layoffs, and the liveliest place in the country is in front of the shops that distribute free handouts.
The little girl with curly blond hair and a shallow smile became a spiritual symbol of the American people, smiling sweetly on the television in a beautiful dress and skirt.
President Roosevelt at the time once took her little hand and said, "As long as Shirley Temple is still around, then there will be no problems in our country." ”
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple was born in 1928, debuted at the age of three, acted in several low-budget movies at the age when she couldn't understand what she could say, and finally ushered in her miracle year at the age of 6, winning the Oscar, even if she didn't have to do anything, she could receive $10,000 a month.
In addition to that, she signed a sky-high contract.
At that time, a movie ticket cost only 15 cents, and the actor Clark Gable, known as the "King of Hollywood", was paid $30,000 for making a movie, while Shirley Temple's salary for each movie reached $50,000, and the dividends were calculated separately.
When Shirley Temple became a phenomenal child star, her appearance was reproduced on a doll face, which became a popular toy at the time and would be stored in every little girl's home.
On her birthday, the American people prepared more than 100,000 birthday gifts for her, and some Australian fans even gave her a live wallaby.
Shirley Temple with a doll made in her image
Behind the glamorous is the excessive consumption of this little girl. Temple's father was a bank clerk and his mother was a stay-at-home wife. Her mother had an unattainable dream of stardom, so she put her expectations on Temple.
When Temple was three years old, she was sent by her mother to the Mielin School of Dance for professional training, and she was later selected to participate in the song and dance film "Cheer Up" and began her career as a child star.
She once presented 8 movies a year, and behind this, she worked for more than 10 hours in a row. Because of the inflammation of the ear, Temple arranged surgery the next day, but the director threatened that tomorrow's absence would be a breach of contract and he would need to pay liquidated damages.
Temple's mother was reluctant to pay for it, which made Temple's ears hurt for several months.
A still from Shirley Temple
Temple's life is only eating, sleeping, filming and her mother, in such a boring and high-pressure work life, she will inevitably lose control, but her mother will not give comfort, only put her in a dark and narrow punishment box, a total of seven times.
In order to prolong Temple's career as a child star, as early as when the company signed her who was almost 6 years old, it was announced that she was only 4 years old, and she would always appear in public as a doll, with blond curly hair, a fluffy short skirt, and white leather shoes.
When she was almost ten years old, she laughed, revealing a mouthful of rounded teeth, which were rumored to be spent tens of thousands of dollars a year by the company every year.
Not only did Temple face a high-pressure job, but most of the characters she played in her popular films were orphans, played by actors who were a few rounds older than her. In the movie "Poor Rich Little Girl", she was arranged to marry her adoptive husband.
The movie is also full of all kinds of sexually suggestive shots.
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Fox's boss once instructed his photographers to photograph Temple: "Turning her dress up high has a chance for the rival actors to lift her up and give the audience an illusion, and now it's a selling point." But be careful to keep your innocence alive. ”
Outside the play, Temple's experience is equally bad.
When Temple's contract with Fox expired, her mother took her to sign with MGM. In his office, producer Arthur Fried offered to spend some time alone with 12-year-old Temple, and his mother readily agreed.
As soon as his mother left the office, Fried took off his pants and exposed his private parts to Temple.
He brazenly said, "I have something made for you here." ”
Feeling lost, scared and helpless, Temple's extreme tension led to her signature childlike smile, and the "giggle" laughter drove Arthur out of the office.
After growing taller, Temple lost her likable image as a child, and she was eager to transform into a girl, and the high salary, as well as this office experience, made the movie "The Wizard of Oz" reject her, and the opportunity fell to another girl.
Shirley Temple as a girl
Born in Grande Lapez, Minnesota, Judy Garland began performing at her father's small theater at the age of 3 and signed to MGM at the age of 13.
Her face is not outstanding compared to other child stars, but she has a good voice that can sing, and with Shirley Temple and MGM falling out, "The Wizard of Oz" chose her to play the heroine Dorothy.
Judy Garland
Because of this olive branch, she sang "Over the Rainbow" in the movie is well-known in the United States, and has developed all the way, winning the Academy Award for Youth, the Global Award, and the Special Tony Award, becoming the first female singer to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and ranking eighth among the top 100 actresses of the century selected by AFI.
But her life on the set of "The Wizard of Oz" was a disaster.
16-year-old Judy plays 12-year-old Dorothy, who has to resort to extreme methods to control her weight in order to meet the demands of her appearance. The company only let her drink black coffee and chicken soup, and let her smoke a lot of cigarettes every day to suppress her appetite.
In addition to this, the costume team made an iron corset for her, which she had to wear all the time during the shoot. Judy's teeth and eyebrows were also picky, and the company arranged for her to have three porcelain teeth.
Judy Garland's image in The Wizard of Oz
"The Wizard of Oz" is a dream movie for children, and the truth is extremely cruel.
Buddy Abbson, who plays the Tin Man, needs to apply pure aluminum powder to his face and body, causing his lungs to atrophy and lifelong breathing problems;
Betty Danko, the stunt double actor of the witch Margaret, was hospitalized for 11 days with a permanent scar on her body because of the left leg injury caused by the explosion of the broomstick;
The actors who play the winged monkeys are only suspended in the air by piano strings, which often break and fall from the sky......
The tin man's face and body were covered in aluminum powder
Hollywood wraps its candy wrappers in filth, and the dream-making world that looks glamorous is full of chicken feathers behind it. After Judy became famous, she worked more and more, and she needed to work more than ten hours in a row, and only slept three or four hours.
In order to ensure that Judy gets her job done, she is fed "pepper pills" (amphetamines) to keep her excited when she is exhausted, and she takes tranquilizers when she can't sleep.
Eighteen-year-old Judy needed regular visits to a psychiatrist and developed drug addiction from an overdose.
Judy depleted her life force prematurely, and she had to fight drugs all her life, committing suicide by taking sleeping pills at the age of 47.
Her eldest daughter commented: "She's been living with tension, and I think she may never have looked for true happiness." Because happiness may be death for her. ”
If Shirley Temple, Judy Garland carries the interference of Vanity Fair, and the obscure sexual edge. Because of the particularity of her debut movie, Brooke Shields was forced by adults to be above the sexual fantasy symbol when she stepped into the entertainment industry.
Brooke's mother, Terri Smalls, is a depressed third-tier model from a cleaner family, and after a one-night stand with Brooke's celebrity-born father, she refused the other family's offer to give money and an abortion, and insisted on giving birth to a child, Brooke.
Brooke has carried her mother's countless expectations since she was born: to become famous in the entertainment industry and to be among the upper class.
At the age of 11, Brooke took a set of nude photos for Playboy, and her mother knew exactly what the eager spectators wanted to see, exposing her young daughter to the gluttons for the sake of so-called fame and fortune.
At the age of 12, Brooke starred in the movie "pretty boy", which is about a young prostitute Violet. The film is ostensibly a critique of reality, but as some media outlets have said, "A 12-year-old girl is sexualized in the open." ”
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Violet in the movie doesn't seem to be different from Brooke, who plays it outside the movie. During filming, Brooke Xiaosi needs to expose her body in front of the crew, and she also needs to kiss the 29-year-old actor.
Terri, as Brooke's guardian, is unable to play the role of protector, and she calculates that the film's nude, erotic shots, while controversial, will make Brooke popular all over the world.
Terri is right, Brooke is as popular as she wants, but she experiences more sexual exploitation.
At the age of 14, she starred in the movie "Youth Coral Island", which tells the story of two teenagers who are stranded on a desert island and fall in love in ignorance.
Outside of the film, the director encourages her to have sex with an 18-year-old actor, which the director calls Brooke's "sexual awakening", and the real purpose is to make the film an extra publicity hotspot.
Stills from "Coral Island of Youth".
After the filming, Brooke receives an advertising offer for CK jeans, and she reads the classic slogan to a worldwide audience: "Do you want to know what's between me and CK jeans? nothing." ”
When Brooke has not yet formed her own three views, the guardian mother takes the initiative to rationalize everything that happened to Brooke, showing her immature body, accepting the purposeful scrutiny of adult men, and even intimate contact with men. Even if she doesn't understand the profound truth, the pain Brooke feels is real.
During the filming of "Pretty Boy", the actor comforted her: "This doesn't count, these are all fake and imaginary." In order to alleviate the pain, Brooke also tried to persuade herself: "I learned this survival technique at a very young age, and I was able to survive by separating myself." ”
Brooke Shields
At the age of 22, Brooke chatted with a filmmaker about her upcoming work projects, and after the filmmaker invited her to her room to wait for a taxi. Upon entering the room, the producer took off his clothes and pressed over to Brooke.
After the incident, Brooke cried and got into the taxi, but she buried the incident deep in her heart, as if as long as she didn't mention it or actively forgot about it, the harm would not happen. is like Fang Siqi, who has always lied to herself that she loves Teacher Li deeply and rationalized the harm that Teacher Li gave herself.
When the elders are absent in the protection and education of children's growth, children will not even learn to take the initiative to protect themselves when they encounter harm.
The drunken Hollywood, the glittering candy house, those young and famous child stars shuttle through it, they are deprived of their childhood and youth, and become the carrier of adult desires, carrying the fame and fortune that adults want, or dirty desires.
After filming Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin became the highest-paid child star of all time, earning $8 million per movie. At that time, the press praised him: "At this moment, the brightest stars in the world are not as dazzling as his eyes." ”
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However, when he recalls the first half of his life when he became famous at a young age, he says: "I have built myself a gorgeous prison, bright and dark.
This prison, in the name of fame and fortune, was locked by Macaulay's father.
The much-anticipated superstar slept on the couch at home, didn't even attend a full semester until he was 14, his life was filled with work and his father, and he was forbidden to read the newspaper until he took his father to court at the age of 15, when he learned he was worth more than $17 million.
After the court, his father took advantage of the chaos to escape, and when he escaped, he did not forget to pack and take away the souvenirs of Macaulay's filming.
Macaulay finally had the ability to buy everything he wanted, and after changing to a new home, he first bought himself a big, soft bed. But the hurt was already there, and he lay on the bed and thought, "I can buy everything I want, but I'm not as happy as I imagined." ”
Macaulay Culkin
Byrne Anderson is known as the world's number one beautiful boy.
The beginning of his life was tragic, his father left him at birth, and his mother was overwhelmed and died. At the age of ten, he became an orphan and had to live in foster care with his uncle.
Byrne Anderson has fair skin, curly blond hair, deep eyebrows, and a high nose, and is still in his teenage years, so he has a kind of beauty that is indistinguishable from that of male and female. The neighbors around him persuaded him to go to the crew for an audition, and when director Lucino Visconti was casting for the new film "Broken in Venice", Anderson went to participate.
Byrne Anderson
"Broken Venice" is almost a sexual version of "Lolita", the elderly composer Assenbach met the beautiful boy Tazio while on vacation in Venice, he was attracted by Tatchio's youth, appearance, and youthfulness, and finally died of illness in Venice.
Three thousand people competed for the role of Tazio, and the director fell in love with Bourne Anderson at a glance.
Margaret Kronz, the casting director in charge of recommending actors for him in Sweden, recalled in the documentary: "When the blonde boy came out, I was standing next to Visconti and I could clearly feel his whole body suddenly excited. ”
Although the film did not do well at the box office, it still gained a lot of influence, and on March 1, 1971, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne of the United Kingdom attended the world premiere of "Broken Venice" in London, England.
Stills from "Broken Venice".
The title of the world's No. 1 beautiful boy marketed by the director is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Because it was a gay movie, the audience speculated that Bourne Anderson was gay, and intentionally or unintentionally harassed him with words and eyes.
The director added fuel to the fire by taking Berne Anderson to a gay club, and he later recalled: "I was not taken care of by the understanding, and the waiters upset me, and they all stared at me as if I were a delicious dish, and I knew that if I couldn't resist at that time, it would be a ruin for my future." ”
The director himself is gay, and he has some overstep towards Bourne Anderson, which arouses the jealousy of the director's homosexuals, and spreads rumors to the media: Bourne has used drugs many times, has promiscuity, taken drugs, cursed him many times for car accidents, suffered plane crashes, and even once involved Bourne in a murder case.
Byrne's image in the media plummeted. He strayed into the adult world, thinking that he could change his fate, but it was more like an adult toy.
The biggest contradiction in this kind of child stars is that on the one hand, they seem to have a lot more things than children of the same age, such as fame, wealth, and the attention of the world, but at the same time, the family and company that hold them to the altar are completely superior.
Adults have the right to speak that children cannot question, and they also control and distort children through words and actions when children have not yet formed their own three views. The child stars lost themselves in Vanity Fair, and under the deformed control of adults, they were forced to compromise.
In addition to the cash cow, the company objectifies child stars, not only satisfying their own sexual desires, but also turning them as objects into gifts for high-level exchanges.
In September 2019, Disney child actor Ricky Garcia posted on his Instagram to reveal his agent's nine-year sexual abuse experience.
Ricky Garcia
At that time, he and two other band members were invited by their manager to join the "songwriting tour" of "Parents Are Not Allowed to Travel", and at an all-you-can-drink party, three teenagers were poured into the bellies of three teenagers with champagne, whiskey, tequila and other spirits.
Garcia wakes up again to find herself naked in her agent's bed. Fearing losing his job, he didn't tell anyone, including his family, about it.
And the agent also treats Garcia as a sex toy of his own, handing him over to other executives in exchange for resources.
Tyler, the agent of the well-known agency APA, and Lisa Delcampo, a senior Hollywood publicist, have sexually assaulted Garcia with the consent of the agent. It wasn't until a few years later that Garcia couldn't take it anymore and turned to the adults around him for help, and finally broke free, but the experience of his childhood would become his eternal nightmare.
Isn't the "Loli Island" in the United States using innocent minors to trade money and power? Loli Island was built by American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein on a private island to provide a place for the elite to trade underage girls.
The public "Epstein list" includes former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, scientist Stephen Hawking, and a lawyer who mentions Michael Jackson. While staff at Loli Island say that not every guest who comes here will have sex with underage girls, this guest list shows that the island is linked to a dirty sex trade that allows the powerful to move around.
Epstein
Some of the abducted underage women continue to bring school friends to Lori Island because of their ignorance. "By the time I was 16 years old, I had taken 75 girls with him. 14, 15, 16 years old, from 8th to 9th grade. I recruited them at school parties. ”
Some victims tried to escape, only to find that the island was full of cameras, and they were all monitored around the clock.
Even if you start a new life as an adult, it is difficult to get rid of the shadow of the past. Caroline visited the Palm Beach mansion about 100 times over the course of four years, three or four times a week. In May 2023, 36-year-old Caroline was a mother of 5 children, but passed away due to an overdose.
She has been using medication to alleviate the pain she experienced in Loli Island.
If you reach the heights of your life too early, you will also experience the pain of falling from a height earlier than your peers.
When Shirley Temple was 12 years old, she faced a career crisis, and her gradually maturing face made her abandoned by the audience, and the box office of "Blue Bird" fell to the bottom.
She was swept away by the company when she had no drama to film, and the special lounge and studio that she used to use in this company were converted to other uses, the portraits hanging on the walls were taken down, and the clothes and jewelry were packaged and sold.
Temple's relationship with her mother also became more and more rigid, and she was anxious to break free from her mother's control. At the age of 15, he fell in love with 22-year-old Air Force Sergeant John Agar, and married two years later. But at the age of 22, because of her husband's alcoholism and cheating, Shirley Temple left her devastated home with her daughter.
Shirley Temple as an adult
After seeing Hollywood's dark songs and people, Shirley Temple decided to leave the land of right and wrong and start a new life. Compared with the child stars who are still trapped in the entertainment industry and have to rely on drugs to maintain their own state, Xiulan Temple's decision is bold and correct.
While walking in Hawaii, Shirley Templer met Charles Black, a 29-year-old naval officer, who had never seen a Temple movie or knew who she was because of her long-term overseas work, and the first thing she accosted was, "Are you a typist?"
In 1950, Shirley Temple retired and married Charles Black. In 1974, she became the first female U.S. ambassador to Ghana. In 1976, she became the first female chief of protocol in the history of the U.S. Department of State. In 1989, she served as U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. In 2006, Shirley Temple was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Film and Television Association.
In 2017, Shirley Temple opened up that she had breast cancer
She bravely left the film industry she loved and was hurt by, took off the glittering crown of a child star, and started a new life for herself. In 1988, she wrote in her autobiography: "After having a family and becoming a mother, I really lived a fairytale life. ”