Shirley Temple was known as a Hollywood box office star during the Great Depression, but why were her first movie roles so concerning? by Laura Dorwart. Published on December 3, 2020.

10 Best Shirley Temple Movies, ... Shirley Temple was a bright light on the silver screen who entertained audiences in ...

Robinson’s first role alongside Shirley Temple, in the 1935 film “The Little Colonel,” was not conceived as any sort of bold social experiment or statement.

In 1935, her parents signed a contract with Fox which would see Temple produce four movies every year. She would be paid $1,000 per week, which in today’s figures is around $123,000.

In honor of Shirley Temple Black's life and legacy, here are the top 10 Shirley Temple movies that you need to show to your own children.

Though she would eventually become a respected diplomat, first at the U.N. (pictured during her ambassadorship in Stockholm), Hollywood never forgot its favorite child star. In 2006, she received ...

Shirley Temple would have been 94 ... (pictured) and James Dunn, was the first to showcase Temple's singing and dancing talents. 03 of ... she met a man who had never seen a Shirley Temple movie.

Shirley Temple: 7 Memorable Movie Roles (Video) The enchanting singing-and-dancing child star died Monday night of natural causes at her Woodside, Calif., home, surrounded by her family and ...

The idea of actress Shirley Temple being MGM's first choice to play Dorothy Gale in 1939's The Wizard of Oz over Judy Garland stands as one of the latter. In fact, so deeply entrenched was this ...

According to Stuart Holbrook, the president of Theriault’s, the auction house that handled the event, Temple (who died in 2014) had hoped for a stand-alone museum for her memorabilia, but it was ...