How Shirley Temple's Lawyers Launched Graham Greene's Career

In the fall of 1937 , the British magazineNight and Daypublished a review of the Shirley Temple movieWee Willie Winkie . The author of the recapitulation was Graham Greene , a comparatively unknown novelist and the magazine ’s literary editor program . Greene hatedWee Willie Winkie , a cloddish adaption of a Rudyard Kipling story set at the height of the British Raj . But he saved extra ill will for Temple ’s rooter , whom he described as lecherous “ in-between - aged men and clergyman ....

November 26, 2024 · 11 min · 2261 words · Jordan Dunlap

The Quick 10: 10 Shocking Hollywood Deaths

Does it seem like only 15 years ago that we were all daub to the screen , watching a white Bronco speed down Interstate 405 ? That ’s because it was . Although it ’s definitely up there in price of media coverage , it ’s far from the first disgraceful slaying to befall Hollywood . Here are 10 others that stun the world . 1 . Virginia Rappe . In what was one of Hollywood ’s first gravid murder scandals , immense ( literally and figuratively ) moving-picture show star Fatty Arbuckle was criminate of raping actress Virginia Rappe , who then died , allegedly of hurt she sustained during the colza ....

November 26, 2024 · 11 min · 2166 words · Jennifer Gilmore