MGM Kept A Teenage Judy Garland On Pills — 10 Old Hollywood Body Secrets Checked
What the Camera Hid
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Old Hollywood sold perfect faces and perfect bodies. Behind the camera: boxes, platforms, pills, false birth certificates, and false teeth.
Ten rumors about what the studios hid about their stars' bodies — Alan Ladd, Sophia Loren, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Shirley Temple, Veronica Lake, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Mickey Rooney, Ava Gardner, Jean Harlow, Charlie Chaplin, and Judy Garland. For every claim: what was said, what the records show, and a verdict.
Six are true. Two are false. Two nobody can prove either way.
Chapters:
0:00 The trench in the sand
0:40 Alan Ladd's hidden box
2:32 Bogart's platform shoes
4:04 Marilyn Monroe's size
6:15 Shirley Temple's true age
8:26 Veronica Lake's hair, by government order
10:12 Gable's false teeth
12:08 MGM vs. Mickey Rooney
14:08 What killed Jean Harlow
15:59 The Chaplin look-alike contest
18:03 Judy Garland's pills
19:52 The verdicts
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A claim. The paperwork. A verdict. Subscribe for the next ten.
#oldhollywood #classichollywood #judygarland #hollywoodhistory #marilynmonroe
Film excerpts are used for commentary, criticism and historical reporting.
Image credits — archival photographs from Wikimedia Commons. Public domain images require no attribution. Photographs used under Creative Commons licences are credited in full in the pinned comment / channel resources.
Documents, props and scenes without real faces were created for this video. No generated image depicts a real person.
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MGM Kept A Teenage Judy Garland On Pills — 10 Old Hollywood Body Secrets Checked
What the Camera Hid
788 views
Old Hollywood sold perfect faces and perfect bodies. Behind the camera: boxes, platforms, pills, false birth certificates, and false teeth.
Ten rumors about what the studios hid about their stars' bodies — Alan Ladd, Sophia Loren, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Shirley Temple, Veronica Lake, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Mickey Rooney, Ava Gardner, Jean Harlow, Charlie Chaplin, and Judy Garland. For every claim: what was said, what the records show, and a verdict.
Six are true. Two are false. Two nobody can prove either way.
Chapters:
0:00 The trench in the sand
0:40 Alan Ladd's hidden box
2:32 Bogart's platform shoes
4:04 Marilyn Monroe's size
6:15 Shirley Temple's true age
8:26 Veronica Lake's hair, by government order
10:12 Gable's false teeth
12:08 MGM vs. Mickey Rooney
14:08 What killed Jean Harlow
15:59 The Chaplin look-alike contest
18:03 Judy Garland's pills
19:52 The verdicts
Previous episode — Bette Davis kicked Joan Crawford in the head, and 9 more Hollywood feuds checked:
Bette Davis Kicked Joan Crawford in the He...
A claim. The paperwork. A verdict. Subscribe for the next ten.
#oldhollywood #classichollywood #judygarland #hollywoodhistory #marilynmonroe
Film excerpts are used for commentary, criticism and historical reporting.
Image credits — archival photographs from Wikimedia Commons. Public domain images require no attribution. Photographs used under Creative Commons licences are credited in full in the pinned comment / channel resources.
Documents, props and scenes without real faces were created for this video. No generated image depicts a real person.