NP: Shirley Temple

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 13:23:02 CDT 2006


Youtube coming right up.

On 10/3/06, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Had insomnia last night and ended up watching Bright Eyes on the
> tube.  This is the movie where Shirley Temple performs her famous number, On
> the Good Ship Lollipop.  The whole movie is a pedophile's delight, from the
> opening scene where little Shirley is hitching rides from strange men, to
> the ending, where two men, neither a relative, are engaged in a custody
> battle for Shirley.  In between, no male lap is left unsat on, various men
> kiss Shirley and she kisses various men under the mistletoe, and in the Good
> Ship sequence, she's in an airplane filled with young men who wrap their
> arms around her bare chubby thighs, pass her around, snuggle with her, rub
> cake and chocolate on her face and hand her various phallic-looking objects.
>
> This was made at the height of the Hays Code, which forbade showing evils
> such as homosexuality and inter-racial relationships.  It's not as if they
> didn't know exactly what they were portraying.  Apparently, it was a lesser
> evil.  It's easy to see why Pynchon had Bianca re-enacting this scene.  It's
> like the gold standard for covert kiddie porn.
>
> Laura
>
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