He took to groping her in his offi ce, telling her as he put a hand on her left breast that she “sang from the heart”.

“I often thought I was lucky I didn’t sing from another part of my anatomy,” she once quipped. Blackmailed into a hectic work schedule by the constant fear that their contracts would be torn up, Garland, along with other young stars, were given adrenaline shots, followed by downers like Seconal.

MAYER even sent people to spy on her to see if she was sticking to her daily diet of chicken soup, black coffee and 80 cigarettes to curb her appetite. Cheating would result in a reprimand and a trip to a doctor to be given diet pills, which gave her insomnia

poor thing.

i am thinking $50 mill will make me feel better.

Yeah. In the 1930s, 40s and 50s the studios owned women actresses and abused them. Sexually and otherwise. But she was just a kid so it's more disgusting.

They made her smoke 80 cigarettes a day to suppress her appetite, though? Christ, if she slept 8 hours, that's like a smoke every 10 minutes or so.

I could go for some coffee and 80 cigarettes about now.

this story is from 6 years ago. way to stay on top of things, ike.

when I was a kid they made me watch. either that or hide under the covers. those fucking monkeys scared the shit out of me.

Movie always freaked me out as a kid.

Trilogy of Terror gets me every time. That fucking doll.

This story is from over 70 years ago dumbass

I'm assuming most of you guys have synced up The Wizard of Oz with The Dark Side of the Moon, right?

I'm assuming most of you guys have synced up The Wizard of Oz with The Dark Side of the Moon, right?

It's kinda cool in some parts.

Who here has someone made them watch Wizard of Oz?