"Oh no! Not again!"
Posted on 02/07/2017 1:37:21 PM PST by drewh
The former husband of screen legend Judy Garland claims that the actress was molested by some of the 'munchkins' on the set of her classic film The Wizard of Oz.'
Sid Luft, who died in 2005, wrote in a recently uncovered memoir that Garland was groped by the grown men despite that fact that she was only 16 at the time.
'They thought they could get away with anything because they were so small,' wrote Luft according to The Sun.
'They would make Judy’s life miserable on set by putting their hands under her dress. The men were 40 or more years old.'
This is not the first time that mention has been made of inappropriate behavior by the munchkins on the set of Oz.
There were rumors at the time of 'dwarf sex parties' being held in the famous Culver Hotel (subsequently owned by John Wayne) where the actors who played the munchkins all lived during filming.
And there were also reports of wild evenings with rooms ransacked and drunken little people swinging from the rafters.
One horrified observer described the group as 'an unholy assembly of pimps, hookers and gamblers.'
Garland later described some of the munchkin actors by saying: 'They were drunks. They got smashed every night and the police used to scoop them up in butterfly nets.'
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"Oh no! Not again!"
someone should have “brought them up short”
I wonder if this is where/when the sport of dwarf tossing started?
Well they say size matters.
So much for the Lollipop Guild.
“One horrified observer described the group as ‘an unholy assembly of pimps, hookers and gamblers.’”
Oh, that’s just a cowardly line.
Seems like a ruby slipper to the family jewels would have solved her problem.
Ding dong!
I read a heavily-sourced book last year about Hollywood life back in the day. Everybody was sleeping with everybody else at one time or the other. It’s good we didn’t know it at time, or it would have grossed us out (when we weren’t fantasizing about it).
The man obviously hates little people....
'She was to me the greatest talent who ever lived.'
It seems that artistic talent more often than not comes with manic depression.
I have seen it in many of the artist I have known.
They often turn to drugs and alcohol as their preferred coping tools.
Ping.
FREEPEDIA
munch*kin / def: an incestual sexual act.
Uh, no. She wasn’t that stupid.
Garland always made jokes about the Munchkins in interviews, on tv shows and on her own show. I have no doubt they were horny little bastards. Still, she glows in it as she does in all her movies!
Yup. The two are linked! And she was a genius.
I had a friend who died 5 years ago who was a great friend of hers. He always intimated that she mainlined heroin. I can’t say if that’s true but he did hint at that over and over.
Sigh! Why am I always the last to hear of these parties?
“They got smashed every night and the police used to scoop them up in butterfly nets.”Now that's the most unusual sentence I've read on the internet in awhile.
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