Top 20 Dark Truths About Classic Hollywood Actors 

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.

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That's saddening. They're still a bullshit company, given the Hollywood strikes.

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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??

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!

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

But that sure did often come at a very heavy price.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

Yes, I spent the whole thing waiting for him to be mentioned.

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

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 “.😮😢

Lots of child pedos back her time. The director, wardrobe stylists etc.

It's worse today.

I did.

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 saw that movie a few months ago And, it was just depressing!

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

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?

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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.

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.

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.

He was gorgeous

Definitely over rated

Thank you and I totally agree.

He was mostly a scumbag, but i respectfully disagree…he’s one of the greats