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Originally Posted by Livia
He's undoubtedly a deplorable excuse of a man. However... what about the actresses who didn't mind selling their bodies for roles? Who used their looks and their bodies to beat other women, maybe with more acting talent but less to the best roles? I mean, the "casting couch" has been a joke in the film industry ever since there's been a film industry. Haven't heard anything about the actresses who chose that route and are now living high on the hog because of it... but I'd be interested in other actresses naming names.
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The problem being is that it's a catch 22, I suppose alot of actresses would have felt like I either do this and get somewhere or just get passed over for the girl who will do it no matter if I was better for the role or not. It's abuse of power, pure and simple.
Look at this article from 1945 for example, she said no and was still successful but look what she suffered for not complying :
Irish Hollywood star Maureen O'Hara was ready to walk away from stardom over sustained sexual harassment in 1945, an interview unearthed from the period reveals.
In it, the movie icon said: "Because I don’t let the producer and director kiss me…or paw me, they have spread word around town that I am not a woman", adding they were instead saying she was as cold as a statue.
She acidly remarked: "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."
O'Hara, who died in 2015 when she was 95, was just 25 when she made the statement, and is being praised again now for having the courage and wit to issue so withering a put-down to those harassing her.
The 1945 Mirror article was shared by pianist James Rhodes on Twitter, who simply remarked: "What a woman.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breaki...45-812956.html