#Bales2023FilmChallenge June 12: Child labour in a movie on #ChildLaborDay

“This isn’t playtime, kids, it’s work.” –Charles Lamont, Baby Burlesk director

In the #BabyBurlesk Kid 'N' Hollywood [aka Kid in Hollywood] (#CharlesLamont, 1933), #ShirleyTemple plays a Hollywood hopeful called Morelegs Sweettrick, who gets her break when the star doesn't feel like showing up (kids, right? no discipline).

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Kid 'N' Hollywood (1933)

set on a movie set in Kid 'N' Hollywood. Shirley Temple can be seen on her knees scrubbing the floor as the character Morelegs Sweettrick. Standing next to her with a bullhorn and adult spats is Arthur J. Maskery as the tyrannical movie director Frightwig...

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