@Yet One More Idiot  
I don’t think it’s news that Hollywood has been a haven for depraved, predatory producer fatcats who don’t have “no”, “stop” or “rape” in their vocabulary.

@Background Pony #F6DB  
I read that the head of the studio propositioned her once in his office by whipping it out right in front of her…but little Shirley just giggled (probably a mixture of nervousness at this occurrence, and innocently having little idea what was going on at that age) and he sent her out of the office to get on with filming.
 
@Background Pony #F6DB
 
There was also a certain amount of sexualisation going on in front of the camera - the way she’s handled by all the pilots during the routine of the “Good Ship Lollipop” song can certainly be viewed that way by audiences today, and that doesn’t even come close to the Baby Burlesk shorts.

Surprised people are talking about the urban legend of her being a demon child, and not the REAL disturbing truth about her.
 
Anyway, if you do a bit of research, including watching the song sequence that OP is referencing, you’ll learn how Temple was sexualized behind the scenes.

@Background Pony Number 17  

 
Actually, she retired from acting in 1949, aged 21. And then returned to it later when she made the Shirley Temple’s Storybook series in the 60s.

@Background Pony Number 17  
Actually kid actor meltdowns are rarer than people think. Is just that cases when it happens are very loudly screamed by the sensationalist media, attracting a lot of attention. Most just retire from the public view and go on to live normal lives…  
Shirley Temple though, never left the public view:  
 
Meet the 27th Ambassador of the United States to Czechoslovakia, Shirley Temple, in 1990.

@justus  
@ABronyAccount  
@Edhelistar
 
Shirley Temple was one of those rare cases of a famous child actor NOT self-destructing in their teenage years. She stopped making movies after 14 or so, ended up marrying a childhood friend, and went on to live a perfectly normal, fairly mundane life. It seems too good to be real in this jaded age, so folks love to make up a “dark backstory” for her even though none existed.

Evidently, I’m not the only one that looks at Cozy Glow and sees Shirley Temple ponified.

@justus  
According to the known accounts, no, she was quite nice. She became a politician as an adult, though.

@Yet One More Idiot  
cozy.

@justus  
I think that’s just the irresistible urge to juxtapose a public persona that’s all sweetness and light with a private persona that’s straight from Satan’s taint.

Was Shirley Temple really bratty behind the scenes? People sure love depicting her as a demon child.

@Darth Prime  
XD

They like it big.  
They like it loud.  
Maybe a little bit jazzy sometimes.

die

She has a beautiful cosy glow about her, and also such bright eyes. :D
 
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