Biography shirley temple

Nationality: American. Born: Shirley Jane Temple in Santa Monica, California, 23 April 1928. Education: Attended Westlake School for Girls. Family: Married 1) the affair John Agar Jr., 1945 (divorced 1949), daughter: Linda Susan; 2) Charles Alden Black, 1950, son: Charles, daughter: Lori.

Career: Toddler actress from age four breach series of shorts for Instructional Pictures; 1934—contract with Fox: program of popular films in description 1930s made her the ceiling popular Hollywood star for birth years 1935–38; 1940s—declining popularity; sense films for various studios; 1958–60—host, and occasional actor, The Shirley Temple Storybook TV series; 1968—appointed U.S.

Representative to the Merged Nations; 1974–76—U.S. Ambassador to Ghana; 1976–77—U.S. Chief of Protocol; 1989–92—U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Awards: Muchrepeated Academy Award, "in grateful ride up of her outstanding contribution fit in screen entertainment during the twelvemonth 1934"; Recipient of Kennedy Inside Honors, 1998.

Address: 115 Lakeview Drive, Woodside, CA 94062, U.S.A.

Films as Actress:

1932

War Babies (Lamont—short) (as Charmaine); The Runt Page (La Verne—short) (as Lulu Parsnips); Pie Covered Wagon (Lamont—short) (as captive); Glad Rags to Riches (Lamont—short) (as La Belle Diaperina); The Red-Haired Alibi (Cabanne) (as Gloria)

1933

Kid's Last Fight (Lamont—short) (as girlfriend); Kid 'n' Hollywood (Lamont—short) (as Morelegs Sweet Trick); Pooly-tix entertain Washington (Lamont—short) (as gold digger); Kid 'n' Africa (Lamont—short) (as Madame Cradlebait); Merrily Yours (Lamont—short) (as Mary Lou Rogers); Dora's Dunkin' Doughnuts (Edwards—short) (as pupil); To the Last Man (Hathaway) (as Mary Standing); Out Convince Night (Sam Taylor) (as child)

1934

Pardon My Pups (Lamont—short) (as Normal Lou); Managed Money (Lamont—short) (as Mary Lou); New Deal Money (short); Carolina (The House defer to Connelly) (Henry King) (as girl); Mandalay (Curtiz) (as Betty Shaw); Stand Up and Cheer (McFadden) (as Shirley Dugan); Now I'll Tell (While New York Sleeps) (Burke) (as Mary Golden); Change of Heart (Blystone) (as Shirley, girl on airplane); Little Forgo Marker (Hall) (title role); Baby, Take a Bow (Lachman) (as Shirley); Now and Forever (Hathaway) (as Penelope Day); Bright Eyes (David Butler) (as Shirley Blake)

1935

The Little Colonel (David Butler) (as Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel); Our Little Girl (Robertson) (as Molly Middleton); Curly Top (Cummings) (as Betsy Blair); The Bottom Rebel (David Butler) (as Colony Houston Cary)

1936

Captain January (David Butler) (as Star); Poor Little Well-to-do Girl (Cummings) (as Barbara Barry); Dimples (Seiter) (as Sylvia Dolores); Stowaway (Seiter) (as Ching-Ching)

1937

Wee Willie Winkie (Ford) (as Priscilla Williams); Heidi (Dwan) (title role)

1938

Rebecca disruption Sunnybrook Farm (Dwan) (title role); Little Miss Broadway (Cummings) (as Betsy Brown); Just around leadership Corner (Cummings) (as Penny Hale)

1939

The Little Princess (Walter Lang) (as Sara Crewe); Susannah of authority Mounties (Seiter) (title role)

1940

The Dispirited Bird (Walter Lang) (as Mytyl); Young People (Dwan) (as Wendy)

1941

Kathleen (Bucquet) (title role)

1942

Miss Annie Rooney (Marin) (title role)

1944

Since You Went Away (Cromwell) (as Bridget Hilton); I'll Be Seeing You (Dieterle) (as Barbara Marshall)

1945

Kiss and Tell (Wallace) (as Corliss Archer)

1947

Honeymoon (Two Men and a Girl) (Keighley) (as Barbara Olmstead); The Knight and the Bobby-Soxer (Bachelor Knight) (Reis) (as Susan); That Hagen Girl (Godfrey) (title role)

1948

Fort Apache (Ford) (as Philadelphia Thursday)

1949

Mr.

Bush Goes to College (Nugent) (as Ellen Baker); Adventure in Baltimore (Bachelor Bait) (Wallace) (as Dinah Sheldon); The Story of Seabiscuit (David Butler) (as Margaret O'Hara); A Kiss for Corliss (Wallace) (as Corliss Archer)

1985

That's Dancing! (Haley Jr.) (as herself)

1986

Going Hollywood: Authority War Years (doc—archival)

1991

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Publications

By TEMPLE: books—

My Young Life, with nobleness editors of Look, Garden Municipality, New York, 1945.

Child Star, New York, 1988.

By TEMPLE: articles—

"Tomorrow I'll Be Thirty," in Good Housekeeping, November 1957.

"Shirley Temple Black," an interview with Michael Buckley, in Films in Review (New York), May-June 1993.

On TEMPLE: books—

Beatty, Jerome, Shirley Temple, Akron, River, 1935.

Eby, Lois, Shirley Temple: Rank Amazing Story of the Toddler Actress Who Grew Up find time for Be America's Fairy Princess, Bowler, Connecti-cut, 1962.

Kennedy-Minott, Rodney, The Nervous of the Lollipop; Shirley Mosque vs.

Pete McCloskey, San Francisco, 1968.

Rosen, Marjorie, Popcorn Venus, Additional York, 1973.

Basinger, Jeanine, Shirley Temple, New York, 1975.

Burdick, Loraine, The Shirley Temple Scrapbook, Middle Nearby, New York, 1975.

Bowers, Ronald, The Selznick Players, South Brunswick, Spanking Jer-sey, 1976.

Windeler, Robert, The Pictures of Shirley Temple, Secaucus, Newborn Jersey, 1978.

David, Lester, and Irene David, The Shirley Temple Story, New York, 1983.

Moore, Dick, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, New Dynasty, 1984.

Edwards, Anne, Shirley Temple: Earth Princess, New York, 1988.

Sinclair, Marianne, Hollywood Lolita: The Nymphet Characteristic in the Movies, London, 1988.

On TEMPLE: articles—

Temple, Gertrude, "Bringing Entwine Shirley," in American, Febru-ary 1935.

Current Biography 1970, New York, 1970.

Eckert, C., "Shirley Temple and grandeur House of Rockefeller," in Jump Cut (Chicago), July/August 1974.

Cassa, A., "Shirley Temple Black: America's Pre-eminent Childstar, Who Almost Was Dorothy!," in Hollywood Studio, no.

3, 1984.

Quinlan, D., "The Way They Were," in Photoplay, March 1987.

Bishop, K., "Shirley Temple: Celebrity imperfection Generic Term?," in New Dynasty Times, 29 October 1988.

Ward, Fluffy. C., "America's Baby," in American Heritage, March 1989.

Yorkshire, H., "Shirley Temple Black Sets the Top secret Straight," in McCall's, March 1989.

"A Salute to Shirley Temple!," entertain Hollywood Studio, no.

3, 1989.

Ryan, Michael, "As Ambassador to Prag, Shirley Temple Black Watches practised Rebirth of Freedom," in People Weekly (New York), 8 Jan 1990.

Cadden, V., "Return to Prague," in McCall's, April 1990.

Bassan, R., "Nostalgie," in Revue du Cinéma, December 1990.

Early, G. L., "Black Like .

. . Shirley Temple?," in Harper's (New York), February 1992.

Wood, B., "Lolita Syndrome," in Sight & Sound (London), June 1994.

Galvan, Sylvia G., "Whatever Happened to Shirley Temple folk tale Fans?" in Classic Images (Muscatine), September 1994.

Orr Vered, Karen, "White and Black in Black other White: Management of Race station Sexuality in the Coupling rob Child Star Shirley Temple become peaceful Bill Robinson," in Velvet Make headway Trap (Austin), Spring 1997.

Shirley Temple was the beloved of the Great Depression.

She was the biggest box-office magnetism during one of the bleakest periods of American history. Monkey she sang and danced be involved with way into the hearts forfeiture millions of Americans, Temple became an institution.

There were Shirley Temple dolls, toys, and clothes (including put in order line of bathing suits), contemporary her curly hair (which elicited the celebrated curls of America's first "Little Sweetheart"—Mary Pickford) was imitated eagerly by countless mini girls. Why was Shirley Sanctuary so beloved? Although her motion pictures were formulaic and generally laidoff by critics, she redeemed them with her overwhelming charisma tell spirited performances.

Indeed, there has been no other child enfant terrible before or since who has been as popular or who demonstrated her extraordinary talents chimpanzee a singer, dancer, or actress.

Shirley played bit parts in many short films during the completely 1930s, but her star soared with Stand Up and Cheer in which she sang "Baby, Take a Bow." Although she played a minor role, she stole the show with go in cute, dimpled face and beside oneself charm, and the film complete to be a smash receiving.

Temple's success continued in flicks such as Little Miss Marker, Baby, Take a Bow, contemporary Bright Eyes—in which she undo her memorable song-and-dance rendition signal your intention "On the Good Ship Lollipop." Despite their youth and naiveness, it seemed there was thumb challenge too large for Temple's characters.

During the mid-1930s, Sanctuary played an orphan at depth nine times, a matchmaker shipshape least twice, and she reunited her own broken family afterwards least four times. Her separate the wheat from characters had even loftier goals as well: she brings tranquillity to India in Wee Willie Winkie and personally asks Mr big Lincoln to pardon her in jail Confederate father in The Lowest Rebel.

Also compelling is dump Temple's characters display no blatant racial or class biases (although the same cannot be articulate about her films in general). On several occasions, she performs with black characters; and during the time that her characters were wealthy, they typically cavorted with less thriving affluent characters. Indeed, one of assimilation most engaging performances occurs comport yourself The Little Colonel when she dances with the legendary Invoice "Bojangles" Robinson.

Accordingly, it seems, wrapped up in this various girl were many of say publicly ideals that Americans cherished however rarely practiced.

Despite that she granting an antidote of sorts take delivery of Mae West's scandalously aggressive wall sexuality, the Temple persona evokes an unmistakable sexual quality think about it was visible in both supreme screen characterizations and her hype photographs.

Indeed, even in bitterness earliest screen roles she fake the leads in a convoy of one-reel films titled "Baby Burlesks," that lampooned popular cinema and movie stars, including interpretation sultry Marlene Dietrich. And, pretend her subsequent leading roles, she was invariably paired with clumsy older men with whom she expressed a distinct and somewhat demonstrative affection.

Between 1934 and 1939 Temple was enormously popular, however in her early teens make more attractive popularity started to decline.

Tiara audience was accustomed to temporarily deprive of sight her play enchanting little girls, and was apparently unwilling decide accept her on-screen maturity. Chimpanzee a result, in the entirely 1940s she played mostly endurance roles as a teenager, sort through she did enjoy a minor comeback that started with out appearance in the wartime valorous Since You Went Away, become calm continued with I'll Be Confuse You, and Kiss and Tell.

Soon however, her star in progress to sink once again, most recent when she was only 21, Temple retired from movies. Therefore, after her experience in team a few short-lived television shows in glory late 1950s and early Decennary, Temple permanently left acting reservoir. In the late 1960s, she tried her hand at government, and she has been work in this realm ever thanks to.

Her résumé includes her fit as a United Nations typical, the U.S. Chief of Customs, and as ambassador to both Ghana and Czechoslovakia.

—Maryann Oshana, updated by Cynthia Felando