So I was randomly pushing buttons on millions of internet pages...
and the name Shirley Temple popped up.
If that site was half true, I had no idea the abuse she put up with both at Fóx and MGM. Not only was she attacked as being an adult midget, but her bosses had no qualms grabbing and at least once raping her. Even her father had no qualms about stealing her money. Fans tried pulling her "wig" off at whistle stops.
And there's no disputing her brief marriage to Agar was miserable. Maybe credit her for lasting four years with the drunk.
Credit her with coming out of that "stardom" and becoming a force for good government under both R and D administrations. Rumor has it that she did, however, hit Eleanor R in the ass with a rock from her ever present slingshot.
So, if half of that is true, she did an excellent job of beating it all back due largely to her own inner resources, even though she was not helped in the least by Hollywood. I'm not going to look further, but I can't help thinking her lifelong husband, Charles Black, a powerful fruit and transportation baron, helped at least a little.
