Patty Duke on Shirley Temple

from Entertainment Weekly:

Patty Duke

ruled the 1960s, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at 16 for The Miracle Worker and later starring in her eponymous sitcom. Starting her career at just 7, Duke has unique insight into the life of a child star, and the specific challenges they face as they grow up in the public eye. Duke opened up about those struggles in her memoir, Call Me Anna, which showed how she overcame her own difficult obstacles.

With the sad news that perhaps the most famous child star of all time, Shirley Temple,

passed away Monday night, EW spoke with Duke to discuss Temple’s influence on her, her own on-set experiences, and why she thinks so many child stars struggle once they hit adulthood.

I don’t know a whole lot about Shirley Temple’s home life or background to get what we saw on film. Except, having been almost in her shoes I know that that little girl worked hours and hours and hours and I hope somebody treated her very kindly. Every mother wanted their daughter to be Shirley Temple. I had very straight hair and my mother used to drive me crazy curling my hair so that I could look like Shirley Temple. Didn’t work!

As a child, I idolized Shirley the movie star. My favorite Shirley Temple movies were the ones that had her incredible singing and dancing and dimples, but then she’d do a scene that was serious and I would be sobbing for days. The mold had been broken. There was only one Shirley Temple. But look, she’ll live on: When we go to a restaurant, my grandchildren order a Shirley Temple.

–As told by Patty Duke

Baby Bottles,Tennis, & Women’s Surplus Army Uniforms

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brie as Bettie Page.

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Rebecca Starr!

& baby bottle brie:


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When the new Zody’s store (sort of like a Kmart –by the way I still have my life time Gemco membership card, even though they went belly-up years ago) opened in Burbank, Smiley Burnett (one of Gene Autry’s sidekicks), and Linda Kaye

from “Petticoat Junction” were there. Burnett had a big roll of what looked liked tickets. He would tear off a “ticket” handing them to the people in line as an autograph. It didn’t even look like he signed them. It looked more like his signature was printed on them! After a few years, I threw mine away. Whereas, my uncle, who worked at Universal Studio, obtained a personally autographed photograph from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. It was one of his prized possessions –really cool.

Substitute teacher was trying to make it as an actor.

He once took over the Enterprise, when Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty, the communications officer, the doctor, George Takai,  and even the Russian guy beamed down to some planet.

Also, my mom was going with a gofer at the studios, who acquired a Star Trek script, which I tried to rip off from him, but before he left :”Hey! Where’s that script!?” Somehow I knew it would have value in the future.

Taking trigonometry during the “summer of love.” Dragged off to the “love-in” at Griffith Park –“At the Love-in!”

(Chocolate Watch Band)

Had the kool aid, but not the sugar cubes! The sugar cubes containing LSD will cause you to jump off a freeway overpass, according to badge 714! “Dum De Dum Dum.”

Speaking of tennis:

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Mom:


Me:

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Alexis Texas as Marilyn Monroe:

brie as Marilyn:

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Holly Mccall wearing a woman’s Army uniform (Holly’s or from the surplus store on Van Nuys Blvd.?)


brie as Holly Mccall!

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brie as Shirley:




Stream of Consciousness

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brie a cheerleader somewhere in Los Angeles county:


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Speaking of 1970s retro nurses:


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Attempt at stream of conscious writing:

Watching the old black & white Hoffman television, “Coast Federal Savings—Ninth and Hill.”

Les crane and the shotgun microphone!

Les:  “I was a fighter pilot in Korea.”

Someone from the audience: “Which side were you on Les?”

Les (seriously): “You want to come up here and say that?”

Purchased used car salesman Cal Worthington’s book “My dog spot” –“Go see Cal!”

Jingle on the radio: “The more you shop at Owl Drug Stores

the more money you save.”

Also, emanating from the juke box at the aformentioned Owl drug store on Sepulveda in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles:
“Standing on the corner
watching all the girls go by” –The Four Lads

Tom Duggan and Joe Dolan–lively debate.

At the Panorama theatre Comander Cody Sky Marshall of the Universe in the last serial “King of the Rocketmen” transpires.

As a kid in the T-bird driving around Reseda on a rainy day with Bobby Darin on the radio  –fingers snapping to “Mac the Knife” —  snap snap!

On 8 millimeter film playing tether ball in the backyard of the house in Arleta.

Soupy Sales as a sleazy dude living in a shack with a radio, even though he was on television. Soupy had a girl friend named “Peaches,” who was himself in drag!

“I love to get a pie in the face.”

La Crescenta outside in the dark wearing girlie clothes during a warm Santa Anna wind –this is when Zorro rides! At any moment the headlights of a car coming up the driveway could have spot-lighted me, but didn’t.

On the black & white television Buster Crabbe as Tarzan with a half nude pre code Jane in a scene, which looked like it was filmed during a Santa Anna wind!

Assigned reading:
“Up the City of Angels”
by Liza Williams

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Kandi Barbour:


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Rebecca Starr!


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Swinger bobby-soxer:

a bobby-soxing wife:


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& brie as Shirley:




Bimbo

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Bimbo Bowler brie

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Back during the big recession of the 80’s, working graveyard as an inserter at the Reno Nevada newspaper for minimum wage.  “This is the lowest I’ve ever been!”
Native American named Frank with a cool long braided pony tail said to me “Why don’t you become a prostitute?”

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Ballerina

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“Ooh honey that outfit must feel amazing! xx”

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Glasses

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Brie coffee mugs and fridge magnets available at:
http://brielivingston.deviantart.com/store

Brie and Bosco the dog mouse pads sold!

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Hillary summers shoe!


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Brie as Princess Lay from the video:


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Brie as Shirley


The Department Store

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Back during the Silicon Valley days, I used to walk through a department store, then on a bridge over the road to the mall in Cupertino.
One day I was trying to buy something from a sales lady behind a counter

, and behind her was some dude.
I asked something of the sales lady, who rudely just ignored me, while her eyes were blinking frequently with the dude closely behind her. Soon the dude left, and I asked something of the lady, who, looking embarrassed and distressed, continued to ignore me. So I went away, and realized that she had been molested by the dude behind the counter.
As I worked nearby, I often went through the department store, sometimes to get lunch at the mall. Another time I saw the same extremely attractive, well-dressed woman looking really sexy as I went through the store. About an hour later as I came back I noticed her

walking in front of me looking slightly disheveled with what looked like sperm on the backs of her nylon clad legs.
I imagined that she was being used sexually by her boss in order to keep her job.

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Shirley sez:


“Promises are the hollow shells of undone deeds.”

and


“I’d like everything to stay suspended, beautiful.”

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“A racy relic from the legendary life of Bela Lugosi — a 1929 painting, featuring the naked image of Clara Bow

— has emerged from a half-century of obscurity, fated for auction this fall.

It’s sexy, iconic Hollywood history — the “It Girl,” posing au natural for Count Dracula.”

Also, Elsinore Military Academy

in Southern California, which was attended by Bela Lugosi Jr. (the son of film actor Bela Lugosi), is now a ruin looking possibly like something out of a Dracula movie!

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42 year old Janet Mason

(PTA soccer mom!) looking exceedingly fit (Botox?), showing the world that she is the best at what she does.

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Molly Rome with a hula hoop!


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More Mom:


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brie as Shirley:


Love

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1970:

California population:     19,971,071

Los Angeles County population:     7,041,982

Therefore, 35% of California lived in Los Angeles County back then!!!

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Now:

California population:     38,041,430

Los Angeles County population:     9.818,605

So, now only 25.8% of California lives in Los Angeles County.

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With a name like Brigitte,

you might think the foreign exchange student was French, especially since she was a brunette, but she was from Germany–West Germany back then.
Anyway, Brigitte cared more about what a person was, rather than how much they had.

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Beth showed up at the company picnic, wearing a tennis outfit, something like this:

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Reno 1986: Driving around in the 74 Dodge Dart listening to the Seeds on a cassette tape!

Why do I feel I inspired a character in the movie “Bodies, Rest & Motion?”

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School girl:

& school girl brie:

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Last Chance for Romantic Love

Working at the Reno post office during the big recession of the 80’s.

Training on the Letter Sorting Machine — one address per second!

Has a keyboard like nowhere else.

When not training, either throwing mail or helping out the mail handlers unloading trucks.

While throwing mail, sometimes the big gal

would come by to chat and even touch me.

She was a couple of inches taller than I, but well proportioned, and was a cheerleader at one time.

The poor old wolf man, resembling Charlie Manson, was responsible for second-class mail — newspapers and such, wished he had never worked for the post office, but had too many years invested to quit.

For the Halloween party I wore a hat with my glasses –“Hey Elton John!”

During a break former prison guard from Carson City uttered barely audibly: “If they get rid of me, I’ll come back and dust this place!” I think he survived, since he kept saying that he wanted to be a mail handler instead of a clerk.

Too broke to buy new glasses, which would have made the training easier no doubt.

Some gal who used to work in a casino finished first.

I was on the last training module, and  it was entirely possible that I would have finished the training second out of about 10 people.

However, supervisor shit-canned me after 10 weeks.

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Tonya:


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Rebecca:


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Janet Mason PTA soccer mom!


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brie as Shirley:



Esther

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brie as Jo Ann

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Dating

“I want for nothing.”

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Esther lived on our cul de sac in Arleta (San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles).

She wore her hair in bangs and had glasses.

One day, when I was about 10 years old,  I was over there wearing loose fitting short pants, enabling Esther to sneak her hand up to my private parts. I think she just wanted to see the expression on my face as I was ignoring her –that got my attention!

She only did that once since to do it again would be wrong, and she could always say her hand slipped, but I never mentioned it to anyone.

Since then I’ve always associated  women with bangs and glasses as being friendly.

Whereas on the street just off the cul de sac lived Herb and Flo

with their swimming pool.

One day while visiting over there I removed Flo’s soiled panties from the bathroom hamper, and wore them underneath my clothes.

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Tonya’s best video for sure:


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Bobby-soxer bobby-soxing:

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Glamour pinup:

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Polterpastry sez

“Hi I drew a picture of you

I hope you like it”

Love it!

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Saw Liz Moss

in

Top of the Lake!

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Lastly, brie as Patty: