Paul405, "ST couldn't act"

What a silly, uninformed, catty comment that is. Total bollocks of course, but that's a jealous, fabricating, Stalinist Green for you. She was an enormous drawcard at a time when America and the World needed a bright and optimistic personality.

"Fox, which had owed $42million and teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, came out of the red entirely thanks to a six-year-old child.

After a protracted legal dispute, Temple's salary at Fox was increased more than six-fold, with her mother now receiving $250 a week. For each film completed, there was also a $15,000 bonus placed in trust for her, later more than doubling to $35,000.

In all this time, however, all the world's highest earning child actually saw of her salary was $13 a month in pocket money"
http://tinyurl.com/mnljhrb

You are fixated about The Greens, I offer an opinion and you attack me as a "Stalinist Green" I am not aware of any Green policy on Shirley Temple, do you and Jim have a fascist policy on ST, only a conceited buffoon would take the attitude you do. You do a quick 'Google' on ST and then post it as if its your own personal knowledge.
I agree Shirley Temple was a draw card, a top star, but she wasn't much of an actor, as she grew up she was unable to obtain roles in films. Her co-star in many films Bill "Bojangles" Robinson also couldn't act, he was a dancer. Contemporaries of Robinson's like Buddy Ebsen, also a fine dancer, but not as good as Robinson, were given star billing and paid accordingly. Robinson received comparatively little for his films.
Children were exploited by Hollywood, you say ST's pay was increased 6 fold, point in question. In the early days it was common when directing children for an assistant off set, to prod children with a stick to get them to start acting, thus the term "prodding". Children were also forced to perform dangerous stunts for the camera. Mickey Rooney, a fine actor, was injured as a child when performing a stunt in the 1930's, that fortunately did not deprive the world of a great talent over many years

Paul1405,

LOL Another who plays victim. It is a leftist pastime - throw manure and when your fabrications are exposed, claim victimhood.

Wasn't it you who used the site to try to get posters to go to a knees-up with the abominable Lee Rhiannon, your 'good friend' and 'fellow Green', 'Auntie' (cringeworthy) as you often describe her.

You should get a job and work hard as Shirley Temple did, while always presenting a cheerful face to the world.

Yeah, that is NOT the way of the Stalinist NSW 'Watermelon' Greens who bitch and protest instead. Mine you, the Greens Senators know how to live and more fool to the 'Useful Idiots' who are taken in by them.

The Greens and "Stalinism?"

Really?

What a quaint mindset.

Next we'll be hearing the "Reds under the beds,"
the "Yellow Peril," and "Bring back the
White Australia" policy.

Some people seem not to have moved out of the past
it seems. Happily the rest of the country has.

Beach, how do you sleep at night, with all those reds under the bed. Not that its any of you business I actually have a job and have had since the age of 16, that is about 45 years. What about you? One of your heroes in life Hermann Goering was "always presenting a cheerful face to the world" your kinda of guy!

Senator Lee Rhiannon, a hero of mine, another hero of your's Senator Joseph Mccarthy, if you were around in the 1950's I'm sure you would be McCathy's number one assistant, cleaning the "Communists" out of Hollywood!

For those interested may I suggest that you Google
a list of black actors who have won the Oscar over
the years. It's quite interesting and goes back to
the late 1930s. From Best Actor, Best Actress, Best
Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Cinematography,
and so on. And that's the ones who won. There's many
more who were nominated - some more than once.