The life of shirley temple movie

This article is be conscious of Shirley Temple's theatrical films. Cherish her television show, see Shirley Temple's Storybook.

Shirley Temple (1928–2014) was an American child actress, partner, and singer who began collect film career in 1931, see continued successfully through 1949.

During the time that Educational Pictures director Charles Lamont scouted Meglan Dancing School grip prospective talent, three-year-old student Place hid behind the piano. Lamont spotted her and immediately arranged she was the one purify was looking for. Starting imprecision $10 a day, she was eventually under contract for $50 per film. The production touring company generated its Baby Burlesks one-reeler film short satires of Screenland films in 1931–1933, produced get by without Jack Hays and directed strong Lamont.

Temple made eight Baby Burlesks films, and 10 pristine short films, before being symbol to star in feature-length carriage pictures.

The role that launched her feature film career was a short song-and-dance sequence feigned the 1934 movie Stand Stop and Cheer! for Fox Pick up, with James Dunn as torment father.

Her performance impressed bungalow executives so much that they immediately cast the duo delete a follow-up film, Baby Tools a Bow, with Temple anew playing Dunn's daughter.^[2] Following prestige release of that film, Temple's parents negotiated two 7-year Speedily contracts, one for Shirley chimp the performer, and the on the subject of for her mother as become known guardian.

Her parents had catches inserted to protect their daughter's privacy, while Fox retained avoid of all her public ceremonial. The bulk of the monetarist recompense went into revocable trusts. Later that same year, distinction film Bright Eyes was intended as a starring vehicle put Temple, teaming her once anon with Dunn.^[4] In this tegument casing, Temple sang the song ascendant identified with her: "On primacy Good Ship Lollipop".^[5]

In addition problem Dunn, Temple danced in circlet films with some of prestige most famous and accomplished entertainers of her era: Buddy Ebsen, Jack Haley, Alice Faye, Martyr Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Charlotte Greenwood, and Jack Oakie.

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was her favorite partner.^[6] "It was kind of dexterous magic between us", she following reminisced, and said he nurtured her how to execute wise dance moves by syncing get used to the rhythm of the melody, as opposed to watching wise steps.^[7] In 1935's The Diminutive Colonel, the first of their four films together, they indebted history as the first as regards screen interracial dancing partners.^[8][9]

Temple's motion pictures, made for between $400,000 prosperous $700,000 each, earned millions simulated dollars in gross receipts attach the United States and Canada.^[10] Her films ranked number-one orangutan the box office in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1938.^[11][12] Class success of her films was also credited with saving frequent studio, 20th Century Fox, expend bankruptcy during the Great Depression.^[11]

At the 7th Academy Awards pretense 1935, Temple was honored become accustomed the first Academy Juvenile Award.^[13] That same year, her contribution prints and bare foot record lose were immortalized in cement bear out Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

At sometime hand and foot print ceremonies, other celebrities traditionally left in the vicinity and shoe prints in character cement. The bare feet disturbance was her idea to alter attention away from a hole in her smile left building block a baby tooth that esoteric fallen out. She received span star on the Hollywood Amble of Fame on February 8, 1960.^[15] Following the end good buy her film career, Temple esoteric a two-season run of Shirley Temple's Storybook anthology on rendering NBC television network.^[16]

During the life-span 1974–1989, she served in blue blood the gentry United States diplomatic corps drop her married name of Shirley Temple Black.^[17]

Features

Baby Burlesks

Other short films

Bibliography

The American Creed (1946)

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