The Transformation of Shirley in 'The Color Purple'

Caught Live on Instagram: "Before hashtags and press conferences, there was Shirley Temple quietly putting it on the record. In her 1988 memoir Child Star and later interviews, the former box-office phenomenon described what she faced as a girl working in 1930s–40s Hollywood: powerful men who treated access to a child performer as entitlement. She recalled studio “meetings” where an executive asked her mother for “favors” in exchange for roles, and an infamous audition as a young teen at MGM whe