Talk:Arthur Freed

message: Dear Wikipedia:
I am writing to request that the biography of my grandfather, Arthur Freed, be edited by removing the false, outrageous and unsubstantiated allegations made first by Shirley Temple in her autobiography and then repeated by Aljean Harmatz in her book on the making of Wizard of Oz about my grandfather conducting a lewd act in the presence of Shirley Temple at the time of his casting Wizard of Oz.
These allegations were made only first 50 years after they allegedly happened when Shirley Temple wrote her autobiography and vented her anger over my grandfather giving the relatively unknown Judy Garland the part of Dorothy over very well known Shirley Temple.
There has never been a shred of evidence including third party statements to substantiate these untrue and hurtful to our family outrageous charges.
Further, I see some idiot has written on Wikipedia about some previous editing of these false statements referring to my grandfather as a child abuser.
Wikipedia -- as one of the Internet's most respected sources of information -- should respect the foundation of American jurisprudence -- "innocent until proven guilty" -- and remove this ridiculous and painful statement.
If you wish to discuss this further with me, please contact me directly.
I would appreciate both the courtesy of a reply and to see that Wikipedia will correct this terrible injustice to my grandfather and our family by removing totally unsubstantiated false allegations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:8001:6f40:56:59ea:91db:e588:d3b1 (talk • contribs) 
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BrxBrx(talk)(please reply with ) 23:18, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  False & Un-substantiated Attacks on Arthur Freed 

message: The alleged exposure incident was published in Shirley Temple's obituary in the New York Times. They recounted it from her autobiography.
That's plenty of reason to include the incident on Wikipedia, whatever reasons Freed's estate (or should I spell it "etate") gives for why it's an invalid account. 
Here's the link.  
Danwroy (talk) 22:12, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  New York Times 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Barrie Chase also seems to have said it in an interview.
see "https://artsmeme.com/2017/10/12/sexual-harassment-in-high-hollywood-by-mgm-freed-unit-boss/"
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Hollywood harassment nothing new, says Barrie Chase
It's pretty detailed.
Any others not mentioned here?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.128.245.219 (talk) 05:57, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another actress also said she was abused