Rogue munchkind visiting from rogue munchkin dynasty.
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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See #37
Ah well...just a bunch of little pricks.
My ideals are shattered, I’m telling ya.
“...at a VIP hideaway and clothes were not required...”
Sounds like a JFK weekend at Peter Lawford’s, Bing Crosby’s, or one of his yacht excursions.
I’m not excusing anything they did, but the world smells different to a midget.
And a hurl button too ;)
“I’m telling you, Dave, there’s nothing worse than a herd of horny munchkins.”
I used to live about four blocks from the site of the Garden of Allah.
So her real name was Frances Gumm Luft?
I was into classic film actors, was a huge fan of Ava Gardner so read/know a lot about Rooney, he being her 1st husband and all...anyhow yea, as far as I know/heard, Rooney and Garland were platonic; however, he was an ass to say as I recall, that she had a crush on him but he wasn’t interested cause she wasn’t pretty enough for him. Given her huge insecurities about her looks and constantly comparing herself to the legendary MGM beauties like Gardner, Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr, etc...what a hurtful, lousy thing to say about/to his good friend!
GROWN men LOL
I think it was the alcohol and the drugs talking when she reminisced to Sid. Hollywood really aged her quick. She looked like a wreck for 20+ years before she died at 47.
Not disagreeing with you because I don't know for sure, but I once read she was put on benzedrine to help her control her weight and that was how she got hooked.
About Rooney, it appears when he was 19 he had a torrid affair with 39 year old Norma Shearer, at the time a major actress at MGM. It didn't last long. (1940s)
It was astonishingly long ago when the phrase “don’t get caught with a dead girl or a live boy in your bed” was invented. Ironically, there were morals clauses everywhere, all powerful censors, and fairly strict social mores at the time, yet all kinds of stuff ran rampant.
That’s probably true.
The studio executives turned her into a walking apothecary.
yes, they were concerned about her weight and got her on pills. She also came from a dysfunctional family. Her father had “issues” to put it nicely. And Mickey Rooney slept with anyone from what I have read.
It hasn’t been terribly long ago that married couples could not be depicted as sharing the same bed. Dez and Lucy had twin beds on TV. In the movies, before that, if two people were shown in bed together, each had to have at least one foot on the floor. Meanwhile, behind the cameras ...
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