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Here Are 11 Heartbreaking Experiences That Prove Bodily Autonomy Was Non-Existent For Women In Old Hollywood

Justice for Judy Garland...

Despite her reputation as, gasp, an unconventional woman, Hepburn's choices ultimately didn't affect her career but rather turned her into "the patron saint of the independent American female,” as Mary McNamara wrote in the actor's 2003 obituary. In his posthumous memoir, Sid Luft — one of Garland's ex-husbands, wrote, "They [the Munchkin actors] would make Judy's life miserable on set by putting their hands under her dress…The men were 40 or more years old." She immediately became pregnant, and despite being married, the studio — and Garland's own mother, Ethel — feared that pregnancy would tarnish the star's innocent, childlike public image and arranged for her to have an abortion.

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