RIP Shirley Temple
RIP Shirley Temple
#1RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 5:50am
Another part of our childhood gone.
Shirley Temple Black Dead at 85
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#2RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 6:17am
Arguably (but not that arguably) the most popular film star of the 1930s. A film icon with enormous talent who helped lift the spirit of our country during the Great Depression.
RIP, little Shirley.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#3RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 6:25am
My favorite Shirley Temple movie is probably her biggest commercial flop. It was Fox's answer to The Wizard of Oz, made in 1940, when Shirley was growing out of her iconic childhood persona.
Still, I lover her performance in it, and the story as well.
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"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#5RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 6:51am
A lot of people say she didn't make the jump from child star to adult, but that is not true.
She had a couple of lean years, but also a couple of huge hits in her late teen years: "The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer" and "Since You Went Away." She married young, and for a time, she quit the business. She was back a decade later, starring in her own TV show, Shirley Temple's Storybook.
But nothing would or could compare to her popularity as a child star. Nothing and no one even comes close to it today.
She was an "icon" of Hollywood, right up there with Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Greta Garbo.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#6RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 7:00am
see below (its early)
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
Updated On: 2/11/14 at 07:00 AM
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#7RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 7:00am
RIP. May have to get some animal crackers today..
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'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#8RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 7:15am
Shirley with Gloria Stuart (of Titanic fame) in "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#9RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 7:35amShirley also enjoyed a lengthy career in public service after her days of childhood fame. Nearly 30 years of representing our country at the UN and at embassies around the world. May she rest in peace!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#10RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 7:39am
My favorite film was "Little Miss Broadway". I memorized the entire film and tried to get the kids in my neighborhood to reenact scenes in my backyard. Unfortunately, the other kids had never seen the film and had no idea what I was talking (incessantly) about.
I'm glad she led a "normal", fulfilling life after her early career.
#11RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 7:53am
My favorite Shirley Temple film:
The Little Princess (1939)
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#12RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 7:59amMine too, Moony! Although I didn't try to get anyone to re-enact that one. I'd learned my lesson the year before with the ill-fated "Heidi Fiasco of 1967."
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#13RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 8:09am"Heidi" was renacted in the privacy of my home, with my grandmother. She was terrible at taking direction.
#14RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 8:11amI wonder how many young kids ended up in the hospital trying to recreate her staircase tap dances with Bill Bojangles Robinson.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#15RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 8:16am
Probably not as many who tried to fly after watching Mary Martin in PETER PAN.
Not that I'd know anything about that. I only fell off the couch...
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#16RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 8:23amAn admirable performer and good person who became famous for all the right reasons. Beauty, talent, stability, public service. May she truly rest in peace.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#18RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 8:34amVery sad to hear this! She had such talent when she was little. But she did leave behind such a legacy.
#19RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 9:12am
I don't mind sharing my childhood ignorance with you on this again ... I've mentioned it before ...
But when I was very young (seven? eight?), I remember thinking that there were two little girls: Shirley Temple and Shirley Temple Black---a little black girl who also wore frilly dresses and tap danced and made movies. Remember, this was the era of advertising black Barbie dolls and there were black versions of Broadway musicals running in NY. And it felt only right and natural that there would be two Shirley Temples for all the world to share and enjoy.
Then I saw this "old woman" ambassador lady on the TV news named Shirley Temple Black, and my dad explained it to me. He also laughed.
A lot.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#20RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 9:19amRIP on the good ship lollipop. You were loved by so many.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 9:25am
So sad. 
My favorite movie is Bright Eyes.
Does anyone remember the episode of The Brady Bunch where Marcia tricks Cindy into believing a client of their dad was coming to see her to turn her into the next Shirley Temple?
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#22RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 9:30am
Always beautiful
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 9:57am
I always thought Shirley, as a teenager, looked like a young Marilyn Monroe ...
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#24RIP Shirley Temple
Posted: 2/11/14 at 10:03amAs a child I used to watch her movies. I was crushed when I found out she was an adult by that time and not that child I saw in the movies!!
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