Salvador Dali (1939) - "Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time"

The painting is thought by some to be a satire of the sexualization of child stars by Hollywood.
See: "Most sacred monsters: Moral panic over the sexualisation of child stars is not only a modern phenomenon" Mark Lawson, The Guardian, Friday 1 June 2007
"Writing in the October 1937 edition of the magazine Night and Day, Graham Greene considered the performance of the then nine-year-old Temple in Wee Willie Winkie. The novelist argued that, though marketed as an innocent kid, the performer had a "more secret and more adult appeal" and was, in truth, a 'complete totsy' with a 'well-developed rump'. Although paedophilia was not a term in common use in the 1930s, Greene's meaning is clear when he suggests that, for her male audience, 'the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire'."
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