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The first child star, Shirley Temple was a world icon by the time she was a toddler. The dimples and the golden curly hair wowed audiences in depression era America and Temple was the top box office draw in the mid 1930s. Having made her debut at three, in War Babies (1932), Temple appeared in films like Red Haired Alibi, To The Last Man, Out All Night and Change Of Heart. After appearing in the musical Stand Up And Cheer, she was signed by Fox and won an Academy Award in 1934 for outstanding contribution to screen entertainment aged five! After many more hits, her star was dimmed by adolescence, but she continued to be one of America's most loved personalities.
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The darling of the silver screen, Shirley Temple is an American icon. Born on April 23, 1928, Shirley began taking dance lessons by the time she was three years old. She was spotted at the dance studio by a talent scout looking for the next young star for a series of short films, and Shirley everything he was seeking.
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When her father is arrested by Union soldiers and wrongly sentenced to death as a Confederate spy, singing Southern belle Shirley Temple goes all the way to President Lincoln to save his life. Features John Boles, Bill Robinson. Includes both the original black-and-white and the newly colorized versions. 73 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital stereo, Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish.
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Synopsis: Just Around the Corner is the film in which little Shirley Temple ends the Depression all by herself! The story starts realistically enough, with 10-year-old Penny Hale (Temple) sharing a basement apartment with her widowed father Jeff (Charles Farrell, in his final Fox film). Once a prosperousRead More
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Shirley Temple was finally signed to Fox Film Corporation (which later merged with 20th Century Pictures to become 20th Century Fox) in late 1933, after appearing in Stand Up and Cheer! with James Dunn. Later, she was paired with Dunn in several films, notably her breakthrough blockbuster Bright Eyes, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel. This was the film that saved Fox from near bankruptcy in 1934 at the height of the Great Depression. It was in Bright Eyes that Temple first performed the song that would become one of her trademarks, "On the Good Ship Lollipop". This was closely followed by the film Curly Top, in which she first sang another trademarked song, "Animal Crackers in My Soup". In 1936, Temple was paid an unprecedented amount of money for her work on Poor Little Rich Girl: $15,000 per week. It was during this period, in the depth of the Depression, when her films were seen as bringing hope and optimism, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is reported to have proclaimed that "as long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right."[3]
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Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica, California, on April 23, 1928. She was the youngest of three children. Her father was a bank teller. As a child Shirley Temple began to take dance steps almost as soon as she began to walk, and her mother took her to dancing school when she was about three and a half years old. She ... took her daughter on endless rounds of visits to agents, hoping to secure a show business career. Persistence paid off.
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