Talk:Wee Willie Winkie (film)

The following, from the Wikipedia entry on Shirley Temple seeems to be rlevant. Should it not be part of the article, or at least be given a link?

Based on Temple's many screen successes, Zanuck increased budgets and production values for her films. In 1937, John Ford[note 8] was hired to direct the sepia-toned Wee Willie Winkie (Temple's own favorite)[49] and a top-drawer cast was signed that included Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith, and Cesar Romero.[49][50] The film was a critical and commercial hit,[49] but British film critic Graham Greene muddied the waters in October 1937 when he wrote in a British magazine that Temple was a "complete totsy" and accused her of being too nubile for a nine-year-old:

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, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire.[51]

Temple and Twentieth Century-Fox sued for libel and won. The settlement remained in trust for Temple in England until she turned twenty-one, at which time it was used to build a youth center in England.

(gramorak (talk) 16:36, 7 July 2010 (UTC))

There are a hundred videos on YouT*** showcasing the ill-treatment that Shirley Temple received while a child star in Hollywood. Also watch some of her film clips and see for yourselves, the level of immodesty and sexual innuendo. Was Graham Greene correct in his assessment? 192.40.24.4 (talk) 13:12, 23 August 2017 (UTC)Shandafurdie


 * It seems not only biased but unjust to quote libel in detail without quoting the judgment against it, effectively promulgating the falsehood. The opening sentence under the section on Libel action against Graham Greene seems sufficient and balanced. I propose to delete the actual libel unless there are sound reasons for retaining it, perhaps because a more determined researcher is able to quote authoritatively the Lord Chief Justice's actual judgement as to why it was in British law libellous. ChrisX (talk) 11:12, 28 September 2019 (UTC)