Shirley Temple Adoration Thread

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/19/06 at 9:36pm

Updated On: 10/20/06 at 09:36 PM

[cturtle]

Posted: 10/19/06 at 9:37pm

i've known some wee willie winkie's in my time ...

[StageManager2]

Posted: 10/19/06 at 9:45pm

Wasn't the story originally about a little boy, but they altered the story to suit Shirley? I remember reading something about that.

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 9:06am

[Mamie]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 9:31am

It was rewritten for Shirley. And what a lovely film it made! (I loved Victor McLaglen)

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 9:41am

Yay Mamie!

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 9:42am

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 9:48am

I didn't know WHAT I was going to find when I opened this thread. haha.

Updated On: 10/20/06 at 09:48 AM

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 10:18am

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 10:20am

Closet Shirley Temple fan here. And the younger she was in the movies, the better!

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 10:22am

Child Genius!

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 10:28am

In the 80s when Joffrey performed in L.A. for six weeks a year, Dr. Silver gave us a party and I got to go inside this very playhouse made of 'Depression Glass'.

Updated On: 10/20/06 at 10:28 AM

[blueroses]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 10:29am

She was precious! I loved The Little Princess. Heidi is my favorite, though.

"Oh grandfather!" *sniffles*

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 10:32am

my mom used to dress me as shirley temple & have me act out ON THE GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP for her & her friends happy hour entertainment.

i would say there is a bit of shirley temple in everything i do, in all the best & worst ways. Updated On: 10/20/06 at 10:32 AM

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 10:33am

Wow n69n!
I just flew to your profile!

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 10:36am

not a fan

[Mamie]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 11:30am

With the wonderful Buddy Ebson in "Captain January"


DEFINITELY a fan

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 11:36am

DEFINITELY a fan!

Updated On: 10/20/06 at 11:36 AM

[jimnysf]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 11:42am

"Heidi" was my favorite. I stayed up until 4 am once to see it on TCM.
Official Website

[DG]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 12:11pm

Mejust - why the pic of her in her later years, especially in conjunction with your statement?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 12:37pm

A political statement, perhaps?

Updated On: 10/20/06 at 12:37 PM

[justme2]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 12:40pm

I got to meet her in the mid 1990's, when I worked for a non-profit here in SF. She was coming to speak at a luncheon and I have to say...she was a very nice lady with impeccable taste in dress and manner. We didn't dare aske her any questions about her film career though...just about what she was doing politically at that time. It was enough to be able to stand by her and just watch her "sparkle".

Favorite performances?

Bright Eyes (God, remember her mother getting run down, on Christmas, carrying Shirley's cake, on the way to her airport party? I still remember the "Happy Landings" smeared all over the street!). Plus, Jane Withers and her machine gun!

The Little Colonel (that tap dancing stair routine!)

Little Miss Marker (need I say more? Damon Runyon story, gansters, molls and a horse?)

Curly Top (simply for the "What I mean is ho ho ho ho!" song on the piano) - and doesn't she tell that great duck joke in the orphanage in this one? Remember? "Well, can you lay an egg?".

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 12:41pm

I'd assume it's her being such a Republican.

"Ya gotta eat your spinach, baby!"

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 12:43pm

Okay Shirley-philes.

What is the movie where she sings to her dolls after she wakes up, and they're all different races, and there is a black doll and she sings "Hidey, Hidey!"??

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 1:00pm

Not another child star even comes close to matching her screen presence. She was one of a kind, and one of the top 5 movie stars of all time. Incredible appeal.