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BF Skinner approved?
The writer is passing on information, but in the spirit of modern America is writing as a little overwrought.
Another modern thing is making the family scenes with kids of the time sound as sick as the media is today about kids “Yeah, calling it disturbing would be a major understatement…”.
Those were dark days for Hollywood. Money meant everything.
But here’s the time Robin Williams defended child actors on the set of the movie ‘Jumanji’.
(I just wanted to throw in something uplifting here.)
Poor kids. I am so sorry.
The well known stereotype of the relentlessly pushy, control-freakish Stage Mother is mostly based on Judy Garland’s mother Ethel Gumm and to a lesser degree Rose Hovick, mother of Gypsy Rose Lee. Ethel Gumm had Judy and her sisters Mary Jane and Virgina on stage performing since Judy was two years old.
Judy inherited her singing ability from her father, Frank Gumm. During Judy’s childhood, Frank Gumm lost several jobs due to reports of his relationships with men. This would cause Frank to uproot the whole family and move to yet another small town.
Big studios would have abortion clinics on the grounds to keep movies on schedule when actresses got pregnant.
Apparently they didn't get the memo that SHE'S DEAD.
Considering she was famous since she was a toddler, considering she made $1000 A WEEK when she was six years old, considering she was raised by a harpie of a "stage mother" who insisted Shirley always have EXACTLY 56 curls in her hair, I've always marveled that she grew up to be -- by most accounts -- a normal human being.
I knew an old french guy Sylvester La Chasse who was her interior decorator when she was older.
he always wanted to talk about all the famous people he had worked for and had notebooks with all the details, and lots of pictures.
I should have paid more attention but I really did not care at the time.