{"id":3779,"date":"2020-10-17T13:16:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T18:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2020-10-17T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T18:16:19","slug":"old-hollywood-scandals-that-history-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3779","title":{"rendered":"Old Hollywood Scandals That History Forgot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, And Judy Garland Had Studio-Pressured Abortions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In old Hollywood, the studios controlled the lives of actors, and they strongly believed a bombshell couldn\u2019t get married or, most especially, pregnant.&nbsp; When Jean Harlow became pregnant during an affair with William Powell, the studio arranged for her to enter a hospital under a pseudonym to &#8220;get some rest.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betty Davis, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Talluhah Bankkhead, Jeanette McDonald, Lana Turner, and Dorothy Dandridge all had abortions arranged by the studios, often against their wishes.&nbsp; To quote Vainity Fair:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1930s, vamp, and man-eating thespian Tallulah Bankhead got &#8220;abortions like other women got permanent waves,&#8221; biographer Lee Israel quips in Miss Tallula Bankhead. When virtuous singing sensation Jeanette McDonald found herself pregnant in 1935, MGM studio boss Louis B. Mayer told Strickling to &#8220;get rid of the problem.&#8221; McDonald soon checked into a hospital with an &#8220;ear infection,&#8221; according to Fleming&#8217;s <em>The Fixers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(See https:\/\/www.ranker.com\/list\/forgotten-old-hollywood-scandals\/thaneeconomou?format=slideshow&amp;slide=12)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, And Judy Garland Had Studio-Pressured Abortions In old Hollywood, the studios controlled the lives of actors, and they strongly believed a bombshell couldn\u2019t get married or, most especially, pregnant.&nbsp; When Jean Harlow became pregnant during an affair with William Powell, the studio arranged for her to enter a hospital under a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}