http://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...hild-star-who-wasnt-a-cautionary-tale/283747/
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Her admirers--middle-aged men and clergymen--respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality
At 12 years old, Temple had already started to age out of commercial viability.
"On her first visit to MGM, Mrs. Black wrote in her autobiography, the producer Arthur Freed unzipped his trousers and exposed himself to her," reports the Times. "Being innocent of male anatomy, she responded by giggling, and he threw her out of his office."
Temple got her start at age three acting in Baby Burlesks, which today's New York Times describes as "a series of sexually suggestive one-reel shorts in which children played all the roles." When kids on set misbehaved, they were sent to a black sound booth where they'd sit on a block of ice. So far as I can tell, the black box did no lasting damage to my psyche, she would later write.