Posted on 02/22/2014 11:52:37 AM PST by BigReb555
Shirley Temple was an actor, a diplomat, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and wife for fifty-five years to the late Charles Alden Black.
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The motion picture capitol of the world Hollywood, California as well as the rest of America and the world are a little poorer with the loss of so many great American and foreign actors including the recent deaths of Ralph Waite who played the Father on the long running CBS TV family classic hit “The Walton’s” and the sweet heart of the silver screen “The Littlest Rebel” Shirley Temple.
Do you remember when….
We flocked to the movies to see our favorite actors that included child stars like: Shirley Temple, Margaret O’Brien, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor whose movies through the magic of television are still enjoyed by new generations of movie lovers?
The movie “Lassie Come Home” with McDowall and Taylor is a tear jerker and….
Shirley Temple made us laugh and cry in such memorable movies like “The Littlest Rebel” where she gets a rise out of Union Commander Colonel Morrison by wearing a Confederate cap and singing Dixie.
Later in the movie after Morrison tries to help her and her father and Shirley tells him “You're nice enough to be a Confederate”!
And, who can ever forget the wonderful dancing team of Miss Shirley Temple and Mr. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson in movies like: “The Littlest Rebel”, “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” and “The Little Colonel.” In the “Little Colonel” Shirley stars alongside legendary Lionel Barrymore who plays a stubborn but proud Old Kentucky Colonel. The movie was made in black and white except for the ending that was photographed in “Technicolor” with the band playing Dixie.
The Golden Age of Hollywood was a wonderful time with great actors like: Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford, but…. A cute-curly haired little girl with an beautiful smile would beat them all at the box office during the Depression Era of 1935 and 1938 and was credited for helping save 20th Century-Fox from bankruptcy with such films as “Curly Top” and “The Littlest Rebel.” Shirley Temple, little dimple face, who stole the hearts of movie goers, has sadly died at age 85.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranking of the top 50 screen legends ranked Shirley Temple at No. 18 among the 25 actresses.
In 1934, Shirley starred in "Little Miss Marker," and in "Bright Eyes," Temple introduced "On the Good Ship Lollipop" that also starred Jane Withers that helped Withers on her way to also become a big child star.
Shirley Temple was an actor, a diplomat, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and wife for fifty-five years to the late Charles Alden Black.
America and indeed the whole world misses you Miss Shirley Temple. During these crazy times we could use a dose of Mickey Rooney, Margaret O’Brien and Miss Shirley Temple to make our day a just a little brighter.
God bless those grand ole stars of yesterday!
RIP to one of the greatest Americans of the 20th Century.
If only Shirley Temple Black had divorced her husband, used her Ambassadorship to promote abortion to the world, praised communist despots, and died with a needle in her arm. Obama would have ordered all flags fly at half-mast.
Who wants to see a movie that’s not full of sex and violence.
http://tvline.com/2014/02/11/shirley-temple-black-dies-movie-marathon-tcm/
I remember watching Shirley Temple movies on the tube when very little. I loved her. Do you remember her short little movies? I remember laughing so hard.
I feel so sorry for today's girls. We had Shirley, Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn when I grew-up. Today's girls have that Miley Freak and Lady Gaga Freak. So sad.
Indeed R.I.P................ Oh so beautiful Lady..
My great granddaughter who will be 6 on the 29th loves Shirley Temple. I am not sure what date she will be celebrating since this s not leap year.
So she’s really only 1 then. Isn’t that the way it works? :)
She was of her place and time. However her technique was limited to giggling and scrunching her face up at the camera.
Whatever she did, she will be forever a treasure to watch doing it. She was an incredible prodigy. The only horrible thing she wrought upon this world was WAAAY too many baby girls named Shirley. Awful name. Great patriotic woman. Loved her. She made my wonderful mom happy during her childhood. What more can one ask? Bob
Oh, I don’t know. I thought she was a talented little dancer and had a real camera presence.
May be you can plan a Shirley Temple Date on March 9th!
Just watched a movie (which I hadn’t seen in a while) in which Shirley Temple had a very small, unbilled part, right before her star started rising... a really harsh and grim western about a family feud, “To the Last Man” (1933), starring Randolph Scott. Temple has a scene in which she’s playing with her new doll, and a villain with a rifle shoots and blows its head off, traumatizing her!
You're not a singer or dancer, are you? She was phenomenal, in her memory of those long routines alone. Her routines with Bill Bojangles Robinson (a dancer so extraordinary that he broke the color line in the 30s, well before any major sports figures did) were in perfect synchrony. Her acting appeared so natural, it must have looked to you like she wasn't really doing anything. Here's a routine from 1935:
You are certainly right. Not a dancer by any means and my singing voice is a lethal weapon.
I was taken aback by the effusive reviews of Mrs. Black’s cinema career. Like I said she was of her time and place and seemed to have caught a “wave” at the right time for her. Her singing strikes me as very limited, and I am not much on tap dancing. As I said, what I seen of her she giggles, nods her head two or three times, and scrunches up her face toward the camera.
I also don’t get the appeal of her successor Mickey Rooney.
My, your comments have certainly been a great addition to a memorial thread for fans of the lady.
Not.
I am not dismissive of Mrs. Black’s later life nor of her post entertainment career. I was just surprised at the unqualified praise of her movie career from less than a handful of commentators. They struck me as going way overboard.
Not a fan of singing, dancing children.
Like I said....
Do you take cabbage to funerals of people you don’t like? If you think she’s overrated, why try to highjack the thread? Obviously you are greatly outvoted. Her movies are still selling since 1936.
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