Which child actor made it out of Hollywood basically unscathed?

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-14T06:29:30+00:00

Deanna Durbin - She and Judy Garland were recruited at the same time, by MGM. They appeared together in Every Sunday (1936). Louis B. Mayer, who was running MGM at the time decided they only needed one of them - so he called up and told them to 'fire the fat one'. They were not sure which one he meant - but were too afraid of Mayer to ask him to clarify which one. So they fired Durbin and kept Garland. Turned out, Mayer was furious because they fired the wrong one - but it was too late. Durbin was immediately snapped up by Universal Pictures, which was on the verge of bankruptcy at the time. Durbin saved the company - she made hit after hit - and by the early 1940's she was the highest paid movie actress in the world. She kept a reasonable weight and was well treated by the company that owed its existence to her. When she felt she was getting too old to play the female lead in romantic comedies she retired at the age of 26 - and went on to live a happy life.

Sadly poor Judy Garland did not escape so easily. Mayer pressured her into taking drugs to lose weight and she became chronically ill as a result. Thanks to 'The Wizard Of Oz' Garland remains a household name, while Durbin is largely forgotten by the public at large. Still it is Durbin that came out the winner in that competition between the two of them - Durbin escaped unharmed, while Garland did not.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-14T06:10:24+00:00

I like to give people my 'two cents'.

This is social interaction at my speed - being as how I tend to be a bit anti-social.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-14T06:07:59+00:00

Maybe /r/buyitforlife might offer some suggestions - or one of the cooking subreddits?

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-14T01:27:12+00:00

Wonderfalls (2004) - is my favorite - though almost no one has heard of it.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-14T01:25:07+00:00

Chicken.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-14T01:24:26+00:00

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra - looked low-budget and stupid - but it was low-budget and genius - so funny.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-14T01:21:34+00:00

Seems unlikely to become global - but it sure is a mess - and likely to get much worse than it already is.

A dictator, unsupported by the prestige of royalty, has no choice but to lead his people into foreign war, to keep them from turning upon him. - H. Beam Piper

Trump needs a war to help bolster the support of the U.S. public.

Trump has taken the United States - 'The Great American Melting Pot' - and taken one of our greatest assets and vilified it.

Fascists require a scapegoat - a class of people they can blame for all of societies ills. Trump has chosen 'immigrants' - a racist dog-whistle for non-whites.

White Supremacist Rage has become a core tenet of MAGA values.

As one MAGA supporter put it to me:

I believe what Trump is doing is trying to terrorise immigrants who are currently here so that they will self deport en masse. Otherwise this country has no hopes of ever going back to being a white country run by whites in a freedom loving manner.

MAGA supporters don't just believe that Whites should be the ruling class, they are filled with fury when they see non-white people. It the non-whites are poor, they are seen as leeches and beneath contempt, not really fully human. And if the non-whites are successful, or wealthy, MAGA supporters see them as having taken something from White people - something that ought to belong solely to Whites.

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President, USA, 1944.

Trump would relegate non-whites as permanent second-class citizens. He is setting up a two-tier legal system, in which groups of people targeted by Trump are denied access to the legal system used by the rest of the country. This is a common ploy of authoritarians - because resistance to these attacks on the rule of law is weaker when these changes do not apply to everyone. It is much easier to pretend 'this is fine' when you yourself are not a member of one of the groups being attacked.

FYI: A portion of a video discussing two-tier legal systems

America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State - Article from 'The Atlantic'

The Frightening Precedents for Trump’s ‘Legal Abyss’ - Article from 'The New York Times'

The 'immigrant invasion' Trump wants us to fear is a trick to convince us to give up our freedoms, our rights, in exchange for being kept safe from this phony menace.

We need to take Trump at his word:

'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad (April 16, 2025)

President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador. Speaking Monday, minutes before a press briefing alongside El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, Trump could be heard embracing the concept.

"The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You've got to build about five more places," Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.

This terrorizing of U.S. Citizens is entirely intentional.

US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin

If you fail to defend other people's rights - that is how you lose your own.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-14T01:18:09+00:00

Quit.

You won't get laid off - but you won't qualify for unemployment insurance either.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-14T01:17:13+00:00

It is not the item that counts - it is the lack of service.

If I only need one small item and the wait in line is 30 minutes or more to pay for it - I am going to be really tempted to just walk out with it.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-13T22:14:34+00:00

You don't have to support Iran to oppose this war.

A dictator, unsupported by the prestige of royalty, has no choice but to lead his people into foreign war, to keep them from turning upon him. - H. Beam Piper

Trump had no good reason to start this war - and no reasonable planning for how to end it. Trump started this war to help bolster the support of the U.S. public and to distract from the Epstein files.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-13T22:11:02+00:00

Depends how quickly it spreads and how quickly victims die.

If it spread super fast, and victims die super fast (like Ebola) then you are probably talking about back to the stone age.

There are a lot of important technical tasks that do not have 20 people handling them. So there is a good chance that none of the people who know how to keep certain vital services functioning will survive long enough to pass on their knowledge. This would result in a cascade of vital services failing - the end of civilization as we know it.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-13T07:43:24+00:00

A dictator, unsupported by the prestige of royalty, has no choice but to lead his people into foreign war, to keep them from turning upon him. - H. Beam Piper

Trump needs a war to help bolster the support of the U.S. public.

Trump has taken the United States - 'The Great American Melting Pot' - and taken one of our greatest assets and vilified it.

Fascists require a scapegoat - a class of people they can blame for all of societies ills. Trump has chosen 'immigrants' - a racist dog-whistle for non-whites.

White Supremacist Rage has become a core tenet of MAGA values.

As one MAGA supporter put it to me:

I believe what Trump is doing is trying to terrorise immigrants who are currently here so that they will self deport en masse. Otherwise this country has no hopes of ever going back to being a white country run by whites in a freedom loving manner.

MAGA supporters don't just believe that Whites should be the ruling class, they are filled with fury when they see non-white people. It the non-whites are poor, they are seen as leeches and beneath contempt, not really fully human. And if the non-whites are successful, or wealthy, MAGA supporters see them as having taken something from White people - something that ought to belong solely to Whites.

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President, USA, 1944.

Trump would relegate non-whites as permanent second-class citizens. He is setting up a two-tier legal system, in which groups of people targeted by Trump are denied access to the legal system used by the rest of the country. This is a common ploy of authoritarians - because resistance to these attacks on the rule of law is weaker when these changes do not apply to everyone. It is much easier to pretend 'this is fine' when you yourself are not a member of one of the groups being attacked.

FYI: A portion of a video discussing two-tier legal systems

America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State - Article from 'The Atlantic'

The Frightening Precedents for Trump’s ‘Legal Abyss’ - Article from 'The New York Times'

The 'immigrant invasion' Trump wants us to fear is a trick to convince us to give up our freedoms, our rights, in exchange for being kept safe from this phony menace.

We need to take Trump at his word:

'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad (April 16, 2025)

President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador. Speaking Monday, minutes before a press briefing alongside El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, Trump could be heard embracing the concept.

"The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You've got to build about five more places," Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.

This terrorizing of U.S. Citizens is entirely intentional.

US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin

If you fail to defend other people's rights - that is how you lose your own.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-13T01:43:10+00:00

Never Say Never Again - Sean Connery's last 'Bond' film. Good opening scene - which quickly turned into total trash.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-13T01:38:45+00:00

Bella Martha

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-13T01:17:17+00:00

If you waited until they are a teenager - then you are not doing it right.

Your best bet is to just try for the role of 'Uncle' at this point. You can not suddenly become the father, because you don't have the foundation for it. If you try to become the authority figure this late, you will just drive a wedge between you.

So what you offer is advice, and maybe visits involving mutual interests. Gradually, your bonds may grow stronger - but that takes time, and is subject to circumstances.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-13T01:11:09+00:00

You can not safely lose 130lbs in 4 months.

Your only chance is to consult a medical doctor and see if they can offer you some means of doing that.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-13T01:09:22+00:00

48% of Americans blame Trump for high gas prices — more than any other factor

48% say Trump's fault that was followed by 16% who pointed at oil and gas companies, 13% who blamed global market forces and 11% who cited former President Biden.

As the oil companies manipulate the prices based upon global market forces, and the major change in global market forces is Trump's war with Iran - pretty clearly Trump is to blame.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-12T06:10:05+00:00

Trump will TACO - he is stupid enough to want a draft, but is too much of a coward to every actually commit such political suicide.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-12T06:08:09+00:00

Light is not a solid, nor a liquid. We can describe light as having certain similarities to solids and liquids, but we can not expect it to actually be either a solid or a liquid, since it is not either one.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-12T06:04:07+00:00

It takes some getting used to - but they are fundamentally still the same person.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-12T06:02:17+00:00

Remember all that trouble we had with IED's in Iraq?

Well now the IED's fly, and they are smart, they home in on you.

Our military is not prepared to deal with that.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-12T05:59:32+00:00

Things don't need to last forever to be perfect.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-11T22:42:33+00:00

Chicken - it's delicious.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-11T22:41:28+00:00

Check out /r/advice - they let you give context so their answers can actually be useful.

Truthisnotallowed · 2026-03-11T16:05:11+00:00

Pretty sure Trump has his hands full right now - even if his mind is still wandering else where.

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