Discovered while browsing in Wikipedia:
[Graham] Greene’s film review of Wee Willie Winkie, featuring nine-year-old Shirley Temple, cost the [Night and Day] magazine a lost libel lawsuit. Greene’s review stated that Temple displayed “a dubious coquetry” which appealed to “middle-aged men and clergymen”.[16] It is now considered one of the first criticisms of the sexualisation of children for entertainment.
It may be just as well that he didn’t live to see moe-licious anime.
apparently, also an early criticism of clergymen being interested in preteen coquetry.