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I Def saw Superman as a repeat as I wasn't born until after George passed
Alot of this was regurgitated "twattle"....In other words Rumour. And by the tone of the narration it sounds ilke its being read right out of a text of some sort. I did enjoy the "over exaggerated" Hollywood Babylon. Which were written by a former child star '--- from the "Golden era" of the thirties. Ya, Kenneth Anger was a very hostile individual, but judging by how hard they tried to silence him back in the early seventies on BOTH PART ONE AND PART TWO....WELL if you've read them there were a LOT of items they wanted buried. They're reminiscent of Confidential Magazine. A whole lot of " twaddle", but some great nuggets buried within. Again I speak from experience as I own one of the largest collections of 1950s Confidential, and other tabloids of the era....Most interesting. Hey, I did stay to the very end -- and that right there-- is more than I can say fer' most of them. I certainly hope I've not offended anyone as sometimes I do get Facetious -- as my girlfriend has just reminded me. Thanks folks.
I'm sure Merle Oberon wasn't the only one hiding her true identity, her race. It was rumors Dinah Shore, Carroll King and J Edgar Hoover were also Black. Movie Studios wanted Lena Horne to lie about being black Because of her complexion, being a light skinned black, they wanted her to lie and say she was Spanish, so she could do more movies.
I still can't believe there was an assassination attempt against Shirley Temple. It's pretty chilling that not even children were safe and sad how disturbed the would be killer was.
Child actors in the Golden Age are almost always have sad background stories - like Jackie Coogan (the original Uncle Fester) and the guy who voiced Peter Pan (Bobby Driscoll)
Jackie survived it, but that is sad about Bobby.
@@KylieCassidy08 Driscoll's parents sent him to a public school and has Jake lloyd has said its hell being an actor in public schoool
@@KylieCassidy08sad part bout Bobby was he was found by kids
Lol right.. my mouth dropped... I was like what?? 😳😳 who would want to hurt Shirley??
MGM really stood for "Make Garland Miserable."
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NOOOOOOOO 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭
That's saddening. They're still a bullshit company, given the Hollywood strikes.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣YES!
Poor Judy Garland, she seemed happy go lucky in her onscreen roles, but her real life was far more tragic. I hope that she's happier wherever she is, somewhere over the rainbow. 🌈
Her mother was the cause of her troubles that continued into adulthood.
Same for the dancer
the name Tatum O'Neal also comes to mind, winning an Oscar at 10 with working/co star her dad Ryan in the same movie, and growing up with drugs, sexual, mental abuse and dysfunctional marriage which led to her losing custody of her 3 children. She currently lives in a retirement community specializing in memory care, where most of the inhabitants are 20 years older than her.
@@kamsismith Her mother and the studios were equally responsible.
And her little dog too!
Sadly Hollywood is still a dark place and people have to sweep it under the rug for work I hope this can really change one day
Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe’s stories never fail to break my heart as they dealt with difficult childhoods and abuse. Same with Lupe Velez, Judy Garland, Jackie Coogan, Merle Oberon, and Shirley Temple. It seems like the bombshells of the Golden Age had the most tragic lives.
When I was little, my father had this DVD collection of classic cinema, with lots of information about each and every movie in a booklet. I think I read all 50. 😅 But the best were Some Like It Hot and Hilda. And when I knew about how bad they treated Rita Hayworth for the sake of beauty... Dang! 😢 I was 10 if I remember correctly. So quite a shock for my age. 😅
@@herestia_photography I think you were referring to "Gilda."
Rita Hayworth was mentioned in this video? I think u meant Rita Moreno
Of course, this is not scandalous, but it should be noted that Shirley Temple went on to become an American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1989-1992. She also said she could remember back to the age of 18 months old. She was a very special person. I only saw her movies on TV as a child, but I loved her. She was an amazing person.
But that sure did often come at a very heavy price.
Marlon Brando was wrong to treat rita moreno so horribly she was right he was a bad man
The way judy garland was treated has echoes today in how kpop, jpop and other korean and japanese, particularly young ones, are treated and exploited by the companies that 'own them'
Gene Kelly was a perfectionist. But that didn’t mean he had the right to bully anyone.
I heard about Alfred Hitchcocks obsession with tippi headren… I heard that the last scene of her with the birds was actually shot with real birds, and that they actually injured her because he liked her so much and she didn’t want anything to do with him… that is crazy about Shirley Temple too. I guess there’s always been mentally unstable people and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Tippi Hendren is Melanie Griffith's mother and Dakota Johnson's grandmother.
The reason she didn't do more movies after "The Birds" and "Marnie" is that Hitchcock had her under an exclusive contract. Since she wouldn't work for him, she (legally) couldn't work for anyone. She went on to work for many years with animals, mostly BIG cats.
@@roberthenleynola ROAR! What a bonkers story that one is😂
@@roberthenleynola she chose to not to sit the right way and 'play' on Hitchcock's 'casting couch'.
I think Ms Mojo tried not to mention the name Louis B Mayer here, he was the perpetrator for tragedies of many actresses.
I didn’t know that Gene Kelly was mistreating Debbie Reynolds. 😢😢😢😢😢
Debbie Reynolds said...I believe I saw it on Turner Classics....that Fred Astaire, who was filming on a soundstage nearby would console and encourage her and tell her how great she was doing.....in a purely fatherly, platonic way. He was a perfectionist in his work too but apparently a very gentle person.
She wrote about it in her second memoir, which was entitled "Unsinkable."
Neither did I.
Mojo is right Gene Kelly admitted he was terrible to her. He really did. In reflection, he knew that he was abusive. You gotta give them credit there. But I give more credit to Debbie for being one of those people that actually spoke up but with dignity. She didn’t attack him. She just said he could’ve been nicer. Very diplomatic.
Kelly was a perfectionist. He was tough on everybody. Reynolds never stopped whining about his "mistreatment," but really, the problem was she was a novice who needed to toughen up. As for Fred Astaire, he was a perfectionist too. Maybe he was more gentlemanly, but Ginger Rogers also had blood in her shoes after working with HIM. I'm sorry, but I can't blame either man--who always worked at the top of their games--for being disappointed and irritated with their co-stars for being unable to keep up. I personally am not that impressed with Reynolds in SitR and feel that she should have been replaced. She's not that charming and her dancing is clunky much of the time. The fun of that movie is watching the way Kelly and Donald O'Connor challenge each other.
Debbie Reynolds, her daughter Carrie Fisher, and now her granddaughter Billie Lourd were/are all incredibly beautiful and talented women. Old Hollywood was absolutely barbaric and isn't all that great now
5:51 it wasn’t alleged. She was given amphetamines both to stay skinny and give her the energy to work w/o eating enough (during Wizard; she could only eat every other day). Then, because she was wired, given barbiturates to sleep at night. I’ve been there. It’s the Elvis cocktail.
Woody Allen's "son" Ronan looks EXACTLY like Frank Sinatra
The Gene Kelly one I gotta say is pretty shocking. 😦
I watched a documentary on Jidy Garland. What a tragic life at such a young age
I expected Judy Garland to be much higher on this list. The drugging of her (& Micky Roony) was quite extensive. The trauma that was inflicted on her reached Liza to the point that their relationship was severely affected.
Thank goodness Elizabeth Taylor saved Montgomery Clift from choking to death after his car accident!! She was a remarkable woman and friend for doing that
I don't care what she did that was good. She was still a whore that stole other women's husbands.
Including Debbie Reynolds husband.
It wasn't Judy Garland who even wanted a showbiz caterer. Her mother pushed her into the industry before Judy was old enough to make that decision.
I meant to say "career" not "caterer".
It was always both a blessing and a curse for her. She stayed in show business her whole life because she had no idea how to support herself any other way, and she adored applause more than anything else; she always loved to make people happy. However, she always hated her mother for pushing her into the business starting when she was only 2 and subjecting her to the whims of the studios. She never wanted her daughters Liza and Lorna to go into show business, but knew that she couldn't make that decision for them once they were adults.
I do think that Hitchcock's predatory behavior is very bad, though Charlie Chaplin's behavior seems to be overlooked because of his politics though it is as bad as Hitch's.
Anyone else creeped out by Shirley Temple in a short short dress parading in front of middle aged men as she sings, the good ship lollipop....kind of sketch to me.
Lots of child pedos back her time. The director, wardrobe stylists etc.
It is quite horrifying knowing that the stars of early Hollywood were mistreated in these ways!! And it’s not lost in me most of the actors were girls and women! I’ve seen Shirley Temple’s interview so I learned what she went through, but there were no standards for fair treatment or no enforcement of rules/standards/laws-it’s kinda heartbreaking, they really had to just suck it up to remain stars….
I'm surprised the list didn't include Errol Flynn.
Yes, I spent the whole thing waiting for him to be mentioned.
I met Noel Neil, who plaid Lois Lane to Reeves' SUPERMAN. She told me she was certain he didn't kill himself.
3:08 You can tell something is going on with Marilyn - she doesn’t look like herself and there’s something in her eyes even sadder than usual. I know addiction with do that, but I don’t think that’s all it was.
Marylyn Monroe people forget that she was both psychologically and physically abused as a child and teenager in fact it came out after her death that she had an illegitimate child that was taken from her and had also had an abortion before the age of 15... Most of this was covered up because most of it was caused by the state putting her in these situations in the first place.
Who?
@@RikDog91 sorry I forgot to put the name at the top because I was using voice to text and my eyes were not working well that day Marylyn Monroe… after her death turned out that there was a young man who, as it turned out was her son it was knee was way after a man it was I think in the 60s or some thing he found out via his birth certificate he would think they would’ve covered it up better, but they didn’t. He came to her funeral and her funeral was kind of already crowded but he was allowed in and that’s how the price found out about him. They didn’t get a picture of him because he didn’t want one and he just came to pay his respects and that was about it a lot of people thought the guy was because he apparently had per approach I think if I remember correctly, they hadn’t realize that that was her son like I said only one of the newspaper guys found out about it and like I said it came out much later on but yeah, the state had her have illegal abortions twice because they were to blame and you would say well how can they make an abortion if it’s illegal well the first time she was raped and was under there preview she had was supposed to be in a foster home but instead of being a foster home they had placed her in a boarding house, and that boarding house had a lot of men in it the woman who was supposed to be looking after her because she was about 12 or 13 at the time did not look after her. She was raped in that boarding house and it wouldn’t be the first time that this would happen but that pregnancy apparently was viable and she did have a child. They took it away of course. I am very surprised that the child in question even showed up at her funeral, but apparently he did and it was a he , since it was a closed, adoption ones would have to one Hass to wonder sorry having problems with voice to texting with speaking when I asked to wonder how he found out because they usually didn’t give that information was only like I said, I think much later on that deal I mean I might be wrong. It might’ve started in the 60s where they allowed for a child over the age of 18 to find out who their parents were, or maybe his parents had been told who his mother was who knows what is known is that after that pregnancy they had two illegal abortions that they had performed and it was performed by the state it is known that the state had these done. I’m surprised though, because it was pretty much almost state policy that, they didn’t have her sterilized. They often did this with any girl who got pregnant more than once but then again, one has like I said what has to wonder if her treatment was so bad she suffered so much.
@@RikDog91 Kennedy family I guess
Oh poor Marilyn! To lose a child you gave birth to and have it taken away! That’s criminal! Rumor has it that Elizabeth Taylor had an illegitimate child by a famous male movie actor and the baby was “ given up for adoption “.😮😢
Shocking to hear all of these. I think everyone knows about Alfred Hitchcock's obsession with Tippi Hedren, but a lot of these I didn't know.
Ginger Rogers said the same about Fred Astaire
Rip Judy garland
I miss Debbie Renyolds she's was funny pretty and a class of sass
On the Conquors movie item 4 of the 6 that died from cancer died from lung cancer including 3-pak a day smoker John Wayne
Yikes they're all shocking, but honestly the one that actually surprises me the most was Shirley Temple almost assassinated by a psycho moron
The disturbed woman thought Shirley was her daughter reincarnated. She never got over losing her kid. Thank goodness the bodyguards saw the gun.
Shirley had a bodyguard, John "Griff" Griffith because there were a number of threats against her safety. Who TF wants to hurt anyone let alone a child.
Aside of “reincarnation” claims, I’d say either a Nazi attack or someone jealous of her spotlight
Judy Lewis never said Loretta told her it wasn't consensual, you maliciously cut the interview to seem so. This is quite misleading. In fact, Judy said they were very much in love, that her mother told her ( and it's pretty much confirmed they did have a relationship by actors, directors mentioning to see and know at the time, including close friends of them) and had a short relationship but intense, that ended bcs he was married. The allegation about not being consensual came from a supposed niece, after Loretta Young's death and Judy Lewis' death too, that supposedly Loretta had said so, but it's, confronted with what everyone else gathered and the words that Loretta actually has said to her daughter and friends, a lie.
Classic Hollywood was just disturbing.😶
It's worse today.
Joan Crawford was nuts.
Nice vid! This info was very interesting!! All of them are quite shocking!
Poor Shirley Tambel rip Shirley Temple
I believe what christina and her brother Christopher said about their mother joan Crawford what that woman did to them was truly cruel
Reeves was murdered. I'm still leaning towards the unions having something to do with it.
Sad the women didn't have the guts to tell those sick pigs to go to hell!!
Wow, some of these guys were downright creepy.
I always found it hard to believe that Rita Morano was the voice screaming HEY YOU GUYS on 70s show The Electric Company, a tiny girl like her with that big voice
I don’t understand why they abuse the actors
It must have been hard for Male Oberon to hit her ethnicity like that. It must take a lot of courage and training to not slip up and let the truth come out until our death.👍
The real estate sign for HOLLYWOOD originally said HOLLYWOOD LAND til 1949
I thought I knew everything about Shirley Temple. Did not know she was almost assassinated. Thank God that scary event, didn't fully come to pass.
Wow.. this countdown was juicy and scandalous. I was sipping all the tea at work lol
Did anyone else catch that for most of the Judy Garland section they used clips of Tammy Blanchard in Life withJudy Garland: Me & My Shadows?
I did.
Showbusiness isn't just worth it! There's ripping an innocent man apart in court over false charges (Michael Jackson) and assasination attempt on a child? Is there anyone human in this industry?
There is a lot of jealousy by people who want to bury Hollywood reputations.
that's the thing about working or just being involved in the industry of 'fame and fortune', it is a perpetual act of chasing and feeding upon it's self.
Michael Jackson's not innocent. I believe Wade Robson and James Safechuck's claims about him. They're too detailed to be lies.
I feel terrible for the lady who tried to kill Shirley Temple........ I hope she actually got some help, but who knows back then. I'm betting not
What about the actresses who didn’t make it big? I’ve researched a few who had real promise, great looks, and talent. It seems that they fled Hollywood like they were being chased.
Lorraine Young had gone to the same convent school I went to. She was always there in the late 1969s, bring gifts to the nuns.
So regarding number 18 on the list “The Misfits”, the ‘dark truth’ is that the 3 main leads in the movie (made in 1961) are now dead.
I remember seeing John Wayne as Genghis Khan. I couldn't help laughing. Who came up with that strange, little bit of casting, l wonder.
Ironic enough it was what gave him cancer, the whole time they were filming over a nuclear testing site. Also Howard Hughes bought up all the prints of "The Conqueror" out of guilt for having killed nearly half of the cast and crew, and that doesn't even include family members of the cast and crew; John Wayne's two sons visited the set, and both also eventually developed cancer. No big surprise that the movie is still not avail. for streaming.
@@al28854 l saw it on TV years ago here in Canada. I'm sorry it caused so much grief. I liked John Wayne as an actor in Westerns but here the casting made the whole thing implausible. The word cringe comes to mind.
Even back then, The Conquerer was slammed by critics as offensively bad.
It’s just what they did in those days. WW2 and especially Pearl Harbor were still fairly fresh wounds so you didn’t usually see Asian actors in leading roles unless they were the villains. See also, Peter Lorre playing Mr. Moto.
It's as bad as casting mick Jagger as Ned kelly
Even Christina Crawford thought the movie, Mommy Dearest was trash.
I saw that movie a few months ago And, it was just depressing!
The late actress Shirley temple,looked like a doll as a child,all she needed it was the box.i.currenly have porcelain dolls,for decor in my bedroom. My mother and her twin sister Ruby,they looked like dolls also,when they were toddlers.i like porcelain dolls that look like toys,not like children. I also have a pig pet toy in the bathroom.
We need 20 more 😊
Merle Oberon was so beautiful!
First of all a lot of her contemporaries witnessed her, Joan Crawford's, bad treatment of her daughter even abusive treatment of her daughter that it was one of these contemporaries in her mémoire written in the late 80s before she died that she have witnessed Joan Crawford being both verbally and physically abusive to her daughter but it was such a common practice back then much of it is slapping and hitting was considered well spare the rod and spoil the child and she mentions this in her book that she thought it was physical abuse that she had witnessed it on more than one occasion and had briefly mentioned it to Joan and Joan had told her to mind her own business how she raised her child was her own affair and how she discipline her child with your own if there and who was she to say anything. And she wasn't the only one who came out with this defense of her daughter of Joan Crawford's daughter that she was telling the truth the problem was that she was such a great actress that it didn't matter to a lot of people that she legally adopted this child that when the child's mother wanted to claim her back she literally made her disappear... Because who wants to hear that their favorite celebrity has done horrible things, nobody does until the whole incident of you know #Me Too people with too afraid to come forward because some of these people had a great deal of power Joan Crawford with no to have a great deal of financial power that she couldn't wield like a weapon so most people would have been afraid to say anything and there was also the idea that well how you raised your kid whether you beat your kids spank your kid whatever was your own affair, you could have abuse your child physically or sexually and get away with it, hell there was one of these fixers (he was also a doctor so you can imagine what he was doing in Hollywood for the various big-name that had him on their speed dial in payroll) who did both and got away with it when his own daughter tried to take him to court as a child he got away with it since nobody could possibly believe that a good upstanding doctor liked him was guilty of the crimes that his daughter was saying he did to her, after all he's a doctor...
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No career is more important than any baby!
The misfits is a good film 💯
Shirley Temple was astounding ❤
Off topic, but could you do a top 10 moments of Doris Day or Doris Day/ Rock Hudson?
2:06 Maybe It’s just me, but it’s not the age difference that makes it inexcusable. The fact they’re coworkers and he’s essentially her boss and outweighs her in reference to power and name are all reasons it should have never happened. Some people like older guys; so along with the others reasons, that seems kind of moot.
What a bunch of interesting legendary stories
I wish the quality of your videos are more Hd 4k!
The way u pronounced Sepultura was freakin hilarious! 😂🤦🏼♂️
we all know why studios ordered their starlets to get their molars removed.......
Unfortunately, I know most of these incidents/backstories...except for Stan Laurel's disturbing behavior, Joan Crawford's teeth-pulling (This was a thing??) and a mentally ill woman almost murdering Shirley Temple. Sadly, one could fill up several other count-downs.
Frank Sintra warned Debbie Reynold about singers maybe he should have warned her about dancers, actors, and studio executives also.
Bobby Driscol?
I'm left wondering if Hollywood has really changed.
19:43 Except for the fact I’m a huge movie buff and never heard of her.
Having an abortion, especially as a celebrity, must have been horrible. Not only the procedure itself but the fact that you were famous had to make it 10 times worse. I guess this is where people talk about the old “coat hanger” trick. I had a relative that did that…..I’m so grateful for the advanced medical procedures and medication, as well as the professionals who support and care for women safely in todays world.
I had a aunt who died in the late 1930s from a self-induced abortion. She was married, her husband was out of work and they were living with her parents. They already had children, and she must have been desperate.
NO one is entitled for respect Respect is Earned!
And that has what to do with this topic - also could it be that you confuse dignity with respect, human dignity isn't something to earned, it's given from birth, and all humans should treat each other with the amount of respect human dignity requires - unless you're living in the US, than being a pig is just fine, right?
I enjoyed watching this video because you provided some background facts/information about actors I didn't know were (also) part of their respective lives. Also, I wish you hadn't abruptly ended this video presentation, however, as it would have been more appropriate, I think, to have included some kind of concluding comment or statement, since the rest of the video had a most pleasant narrative. ~drs (11/28/23)
Brilliant backing music on this video. Not too overpowering😊
Arthur Lake's (Blondie movies and TV series) wife was the secret love child of Randolph Hearst and a movie actress.
Wow!!!!
It's sad what happened to Montgomery clift the car accident truly ruined his life 😥🚗
He was gorgeous
Good grief, who would've thunk? So much darkness behind movie star's lives 😕
Christine admitted that she made it up during an interview because she needed the money. Christine was the bad one here not Joan. RIP Joan 🙏🏻🥰
Judy didnt had one day of peace at her life, everything about her is so sad, poor woman
1:14 If you’re talented and fit the part, who cares? I know Hollywood is still behind the times even with gay people, but they seem to forget you’re paying people to pretend to be something they’re not.
I’m surprised Jennette McCurdy isn’t on this list. The s*** she had to live through at the hands of her abusive mother as a child while being on ICarly was heartbreaking and disgusting. She was forced into acting and was forced by her mother to take showers with her brother, eat a restrictive diet, and was sexually abused by Dan Schneider. She was offered hush money but turned it down to write her book, *I’m Glad My Mom Died.* If you haven’t read it, i highly recommend it, it’s a best selling book and it’s something we all can learn from.
It says classic hollywood actors. That said, Jennette McCurdy went through so much as a child. It's so sad.
@@rpsyco It's always the child actors who are pushed into the industry against their will by their parents that struggle the most. The ones who act because it is what THEY want, and the ones who had actual good parents who looked out for their welfare but didn't exploit them, are usually the child actors that turn out all right.
3:39 Don’t even give me that shit. Especially as a gay man. It’s not even for me to be skinny, I have to be fucking muscular AND toned, so somehow find the protein and calories to keep growing muscle and sustain my workout, but not any extra calories for any sort of flab to creep on.
Sadly Fatty Arbuckle’s career was destroyed by rumours while Charlie Chaplin was quite clearly a total creep 🥺😡🥺
1:02
A Star is torn!
It was lex Luther that killed Superman
I always thought Gene Kelly was a nice guy😮
19, 15, 3
It is called show "business". Everything for a buck...
Loretta Young’s affair with Clark Gable while making “The Call of the Wild” was universally regarded as consensual. They were on a remote location in the mountains with lots of snow.😅The idea that Young was forced didn’t happen until Young’s daughter-in-law spread this rumor after both Loretta Young and Judy Lewis died. She claimed Young didn’t realize that she had been assaulted until she was elderly. Clark Gable was no angel-he treated his first wife badly, and even ran around on Carole Lombard , but Loretta Young wasn’t innocent either. She had affairs with others, including a serious one with Spencer Tracy. I just don’t see Gable as a rapist.
Lol! Spencer Tracy was gay and played around male prostitutes .
He wasn't as far as I know.Plenty of women would have thrown themselves and given it to him for free.
Brando was the worst actor of all time... we really need to stop glorifying this guy. Read about him for 15 minutes and you can clearly see he was trash, propped up by myth and memory. He was a waste of human flesh.
Definitely over rated
Thank you and I totally agree.
He was mostly a scumbag, but i respectfully disagree…he’s one of the greats
Top 20 Light Truths About Classic Hollywood Actors
Monty Cliff was also gay