[Niamh.]

And looks like in that time, not alot has really changed, bad state of affairs




A 1945 interview with Irish actress Maureen O’Hara has shown how she shone a light on Hollywood’s sexual harassment culture more than 70 years ago.

The actress and singer was famed for her flaming red hair, and was an icon during Hollywood’s golden era of the 1940s and 50s, however the old clipping which was shared on Twitter detailed her struggles.

At the time O’Hara was just 25, but the 72-year-old newspaper article originally published in the Mirror shows how she reported the sexual harassment she was experiencing while at work.

The article reads: ‘Irish film star Maureen O’Hara today charged Hollywood producers and directors with calling her “A cold potato without sex appeal” because she refuses to let them make love to her, says the Mirror New York correspondent.

‘I am so upset with it that I am ready to quit Hollywood,’ Maureen says, ‘It’s got so bad that I hate to come to work in the morning.’

It continues, ‘I am the 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.’

She finished: ‘I guess Hollywood won’t consider me as anything except a cold hunk of marble until I divorce my husband, give my baby away and get my name and photograph in all the newspapers. If that’s Hollywood’s idea of being a woman I’m ready to quit now.’

The clipping has been shared thousands of times in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal which rocked Hollywood.
https://extra.ie/featured/maureen-oh...llywood-sexism

[bitontheslide]

what gets me is that the "casting couch" has been a factual reality for decades, and all people did was make jokes about it

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

what gets me is that the "casting couch" has been a factual reality for decades, and all people did was make jokes about it

Yeah true, I guess the opinion though is what can we do about it? If you're a man in Hollywood it probably didn't affect you (as much, I know it seems to have been a thing for much younger guys like Corey Feldman when he was a kid) and if you are a woman it's have your name black listed if you say a word.