© Picture: (L) Trinity Mirror/British Library/British Newspaper Archive (R) Keystone/Getty Images'Love Strike'? Evidently the collusion within the media against those willing to speak out is an old tactic.
An image of a report from The Mirror, purportedly dated 1945, has been shared by the musician and author James Rhodes.
Another copy of the same article, published Tuesday, 27 May 1945, now resides in the British Library.
It states that actor Maureen O'Hara has accused of Hollywood producers of calling her a 'cold potato without sex appeal', because she refused their sexual advances.
O'Hara told The Mirror:
I am so upset with it that I am ready to quit Hollywood,She continued:
it's got so bad I hate to come to work in the morning.
I'm a helpless victim of a Hollywood whispering campaign.Because I don't let the producer and director kiss me every morning or let them paw me they have spread around town that I am not a woman, that I am a cold piece of marble statuary.
O'Hara, who died in 2015, was best known for starring in How Green Was My Valley (1941), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and opposite John Wayne in The Quiet Man (1952),
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph in 2014, O'Hara spoke about how standing up to studio heads harmed her career.
I wouldn't throw myself on the casting couch, and I know that cost me parts.
I wasn't going to play the whore.
That wasn't me.
Comment: Hollywood's sexual predators who use their position of influence to coerce and abuse aspiring performers has hit the headlines recently, though this isn't news to those in the industry, clearly it has been going for many decades. In fact it's so ingrained the 'casting-couch' is seen as just one of the many trials one must face if they want to work in the entertainment business at all:
- Former child star outs pedophile Disney director, Victor Salva
- Rose McGowan tweets Harvey Weinstein raped her then is issued with arrest warrant
- Filmmaker Jame Toback accused of sexual harassment by over 200 women after LA Times publishes investigation
- Actor Corey Feldman says pedophilia is Hollywood's biggest problem
- Revelation Kevin Spacey groped child raises questions about his connections and children's foundation
- Child rapist Roman Polanski WILL come back to the US - but only if a judge says he has already served enough time for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl
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