For this movie, made in 1932, they travelled the world and hired all the most famous circus performers of the time and called them "freaks".
You see here: Johnny Eck the Half Boy, Frances O'Connor the Venus di Milo, Olga Roderick the Bearded Lady, Koo Koo the birdwoman, Elvira and Jenny Lee Snow the "Pinheads", and my fav, Schlitzie.
They were allowed to do such mean things and use cruel names back in the day because there were no morality "rules" in entertainment yet
For this movie, made in 1932, they travelled the world and hired all the most famous circus performers of the time and called them "freaks".
You see here: Johnny Eck the Half Boy, Frances O'Connor the Venus di Milo, Olga Roderick the Bearded Lady, Koo Koo the birdwoman, Elvira and Jenny Lee Snow the "Pinheads", and my fav, Schlitzie.
They were allowed to do such mean things and use cruel names back in the day because there were no morality "rules" in entertainment yet
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