You are so right Toochis...what an amazing person. I have collected
Shirley Temple posters since I first began collecting over 40 years ago.
Those posters will be the hardest to let go of when I finally get around to
selling off my collection. I have the Littlest Colonel framed above my bed and
Curly Top and Bright Eyes in my hallway. I have never had room to put up my
Stowaway 3 sheet that is shown in the previous email, but I look at it often
and it is one of the most beautiful of her film posters.
I get asked all the time what my favorite Temple movie is and it is hard
to say as, while I know all the individual plots, they sort of all blend
together in a child's mind of laughter and joy. Sounds a bit corny now, but I
needed those movies as much as a child of the 50's as the people of the country
needed them in the 30's when they were originally shown. There are certain
scenes from her movies that are so vivid in my head, like the scene in Bright
Eyes where her mother is running across the street with the birthday cake and
gets hit by a car. That scene where David Butler cuts to a closeup on that
smashed birthday cake is a killer.... anyway, she had an amazing life and I'm
thankful for all those wonderful memories that she left us...
Sue
www.hollywoodposterframes.com
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:23:56 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] RIP Shirley Temple
To: [email protected]
What a terrific life. She's delighting in heaven now. What a great poster Bruce!
Toochis
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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!
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