Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
#1Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/27/08 at 9:00am
How did we miss this?
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nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#2re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/27/08 at 9:11am
I can't believe I missed this.
Well, Happy Birthday and Get Well Soon to The Little Colonel.
Updated On: 4/27/08 at 09:11 AM
#2re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/27/08 at 9:20am
Happy 80th to America's Sweetheart!
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nmartin
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#3re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/27/08 at 9:23amI really would have liked seeing her as Veda Pierce.
#4re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/27/08 at 10:13am
Child Genius! 
#5re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/27/08 at 11:03am
She would have kicked butt as Veda! She became quite the little actress after her childhood years. I love her in Since You Went Away and The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer. I'm sure she could have nailed Veda. I think audience were a little weirded out by their favorite little darling growing up. But she did make the transition to young leading lady very well, and in some hit movies too.
Not that I don't love me some Ann Blyth though!
But can you imagine Joanie Crawford slapping the hell out of Shirley Temple!
Bring it on! That would have rocked the confederacy.
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nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#6re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/27/08 at 1:01pmWhen I saw this thread, the first thing I thought of was Since You Went Away. That's one of those movies that I would love to see on a big screen.
thatgirl712
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/08
#7re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:54amGet well soon Shirley!
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#8re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 8:17am
Every time I see her with her married name, I flash to an epsiode of "Laugh In" where one of the pop-ups during a party was:
"Paint Shirley Temple" (a few moments later) "Black"
#9re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 8:39am
Even worse than that, when I was a little kid, I used to think there was a little talented black girl out there who was named Shirley Temple Black. I wish to god I was joking but I'm not. I was also about 7 years old at the time, but I thought there was a Shirley Temple... and a Shirley Temple Black.
I guess it was the way a seven-year-old processes the volatile equal rights movement of the late '60s and early '70s when I was growing up. I was definitely aware, just misguided.
To this day, I can't help but laugh at my little confused self for thinking such a thing.
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JohnBoy2
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#10re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 8:48am
That's very funny, Best!
Of her non-kid roles, I really like the films, That Hagen Girl, with Ronald Reagan, and Honeymoon, with Guy Madison and Franchot Tone.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#11re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:14amI may get shot for this, but I have never actually seen a Shirley Temple movie.
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#12re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:40am
If American cinema was to have an iconic figure about all iconic figures, it would be Shirley Temple.
She is more iconic then Crawford, Davis, Astaire, Bergman, Hepburn, Nicolson, Streep et al. Just one little curly-hair six year old girl beats them all hands down.
I have many MANY happy childhood memories because of this lady. For that I will be forever grateful and happy, and I can only hope one day I have children (God willing), they experience the joy I had with this curly hair moppett.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#13re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:42amI completely agree.
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#14re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:50amLouise Brooks wrote in all seriousness about Shirley Temple, "What a tough little slut she was."
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#15re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:20amAnd what was that supposed to mean?
#16re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:25amWas she drunk at the time? It's not like they traveled in the same circles ever. Temple was 8 years old and the biggest star in the world when Brook's career was over. It wreaks of either jealousy or misinformation.
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#17re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:32amI have been inside her 'Depression Glass Playhouse", which was a gift to her from Twentieth Century Fox for saving the studio.
#18re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:55amb12b, something similar. I was crushed to find out that Shirley Temple was an adult and was no longer a child when I was younger and watched her movies!
#19re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 11:27amOuchee! Ouchee! OUCHEE!
#20re: Shirley Temple Black turns 80 and breaks her arm
Posted: 4/28/08 at 11:30amI wonder if she had the same reaction Lauren Becall had on The Sopranos.
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