What a terrific life. She's delighting in heaven now. What a great poster Bruce!
Toochis Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 11, 2014, at 7:02 AM, Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > RIP Shirley Temple. She was born in Santa Monica, California in 1928. Her > mother quickly saw her remarkable talent, and did all she could to develop > it, and to get her noticed. She enrolled her in a dance school, where she > amazed everyone with her dancing and singing abilities at such a young age. > > Her mother gave her a hair style imitative of that worn by Mary Pickford, > with exactly 56 "ringlets". She appeared in her first movies starting when > she was just shy of four years old, in a series called "Baby Burlesks" (she > had apparently failed an audition for the Our Gang series). She was paid $10 > a day. > > In 1934, she signed a contract with Fox, and her career really took off. Her > big breakthrough came with Stand Up and Cheer!, where her singing and dancing > amazed the nation. But she proved she was a remarkably poised actress that > same year in Little Miss Marker and Baby Take a Bow, and Fox rushed her into > as many movies as they could. > > That same year she was in Now and Forever with Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard > (reportedly Cooper asked for her autograph when he met her!), and soon after > she starred in the series of juvenile musicals she is best remembered for, > films like Bright Eyes, The Little Colonel, Curly Top, Poor Little Rich Girl, > Wee Willie Winkie, Heidi, and many more. > > In the late 1930s, Fox (now 20th Century Fox) still had her in little girl > roles, even though she was rapidly maturing, and in 1939 MGM badly wanted her > for the lead in The Wizard of Oz, but 20th Century Fox refused to loan her > out, and instead put her in The Blue Bird, which did not do well. > > She left Fox, and began playing "teen" roles for various studios, but none > were very successful, and she made far fewer movies. In 1945, she married > actor John Agar, and they were married four years and had a child. In 1949, > they divorced, and a year later she married businessman Charles Black, and > retired from movies forever. > > She saved the Fox studio after the death of its previous greatest star, Will > Rogers in 1935. She was merchandised in a zillion ways, and countless girls > born in the late 1930s were named "Shirley". > > She became active in politics (she was a Republican, and was appointed to > several posts in the 1960s to 1990s). There has never been another child > actor with so much talent at such a young age, and she was surely the number > one child star of all time! > > > -- > Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team > P.O. Box 874 > West Plains, MO 65775 > Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take > lunch) > our site > our auctions > > > Complete Buyer Protection - No time limit on our guarantees & NO buyer beware > Hershenson Help Hotline - Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for urgent > problems > Also, please read the following three pages of in-depth Customer Reviews of > our company - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, which shows you in our customers' own > words exactly what makes our company and our auctions so very different from > all others! > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
