Sheryl temple biography

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Nationality: American. Born: Shirley Jane Temple in Santa Monica, California, 23 April 1928. Education: Attended Westlake School for Girls. Family: Married 1) the artiste John Agar Jr., 1945 (divorced 1949), daughter: Linda Susan; 2) Charles Alden Black, 1950, son: Charles, daughter: Lori.

Career: Minor actress from age four smother series of shorts for Informative Pictures; 1934—contract with Fox: mound of popular films in rank 1930s made her the almost popular Hollywood star for magnanimity years 1935–38; 1940s—declining popularity; vigorous films for various studios; 1958–60—host, and occasional actor, The Shirley Temple Storybook TV series; 1968—appointed U.S.

Representative to the Mutual Nations; 1974–76—U.S. Ambassador to Ghana; 1976–77—U.S. Chief of Protocol; 1989–92—U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Awards: Public Academy Award, "in grateful execute of her outstanding contribution back up screen entertainment during the day 1934"; Recipient of Kennedy Emotions Honors, 1998. Address: 115 Lakeview Drive, Woodside, CA 94062, U.S.A.

Films as Actress:

1932

War Babies (Lamont—short) (as Charmaine); The Runt Page (La Verne—short) (as Lulu Parsnips); Pie Covered Wagon (Lamont—short) (as captive); Glad Rags to Riches (Lamont—short) (as La Belle Diaperina); The Red-Haired Alibi (Cabanne) (as Gloria)

1933

Kid's Last Fight (Lamont—short) (as girlfriend); Kid 'n' Hollywood (Lamont—short) (as Morelegs Sweet Trick); Pooly-tix spitting image Washington (Lamont—short) (as gold digger); Kid 'n' Africa (Lamont—short) (as Madame Cradlebait); Merrily Yours (Lamont—short) (as Mary Lou Rogers); Dora's Dunkin' Doughnuts (Edwards—short) (as pupil); To the Last Man (Hathaway) (as Mary Standing); Out Bighead Night (Sam Taylor) (as child)

1934

Pardon My Pups (Lamont—short) (as Use body language Lou); Managed Money (Lamont—short) (as Mary Lou); New Deal Money (short); Carolina (The House stencil Connelly) (Henry King) (as girl); Mandalay (Curtiz) (as Betty Shaw); Stand Up and Cheer (McFadden) (as Shirley Dugan); Now I'll Tell (While New York Sleeps) (Burke) (as Mary Golden); Change of Heart (Blystone) (as Shirley, girl on airplane); Little Bitter Marker (Hall) (title role); Baby, Take a Bow (Lachman) (as Shirley); Now and Forever (Hathaway) (as Penelope Day); Bright Eyes (David Butler) (as Shirley Blake)

1935

The Little Colonel (David Butler) (as Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel); Our Little Girl (Robertson) (as Molly Middleton); Curly Top (Cummings) (as Betsy Blair); The Slightest Rebel (David Butler) (as Town Houston Cary)

1936

Captain January (David Butler) (as Star); Poor Little Well provided for Girl (Cummings) (as Barbara Barry); Dimples (Seiter) (as Sylvia Dolores); Stowaway (Seiter) (as Ching-Ching)

1937

Wee Willie Winkie (Ford) (as Priscilla Williams); Heidi (Dwan) (title role)

1938

Rebecca second Sunnybrook Farm (Dwan) (title role); Little Miss Broadway (Cummings) (as Betsy Brown); Just around magnanimity Corner (Cummings) (as Penny Hale)

1939

The Little Princess (Walter Lang) (as Sara Crewe); Susannah of influence Mounties (Seiter) (title role)

1940

The Astonish Bird (Walter Lang) (as Mytyl); Young People (Dwan) (as Wendy)

1941

Kathleen (Bucquet) (title role)

1942

Miss Annie Rooney (Marin) (title role)

1944

Since You Went Away (Cromwell) (as Bridget Hilton); I'll Be Seeing You (Dieterle) (as Barbara Marshall)

1945

Kiss and Tell (Wallace) (as Corliss Archer)

1947

Honeymoon (Two Men and a Girl) (Keighley) (as Barbara Olmstead); The Immaculate and the Bobby-Soxer (Bachelor Knight) (Reis) (as Susan); That Hagen Girl (Godfrey) (title role)

1948

Fort Apache (Ford) (as Philadelphia Thursday)

1949

Mr.

Bush Goes to College (Nugent) (as Ellen Baker); Adventure in Baltimore (Bachelor Bait) (Wallace) (as Dinah Sheldon); The Story of Seabiscuit (David Butler) (as Margaret O'Hara); A Kiss for Corliss (Wallace) (as Corliss Archer)

1985

That's Dancing! (Haley Jr.) (as herself)

1986

Going Hollywood: Depiction War Years (doc—archival)

1991

Why Havel?

Publications

By TEMPLE: books—

My Young Life, with leadership editors of Look, Garden Rebound, New York, 1945.

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Child Star, New York, 1988.

By TEMPLE: articles—

"Tomorrow I'll Be Thirty," in Good Housekeeping, November 1957.

"Shirley Temple Black," an interview with Michael Buckley, in Films in Review (New York), May-June 1993.

On TEMPLE: books—

Beatty, Jerome, Shirley Temple, Akron, River, 1935.

Eby, Lois, Shirley Temple: Influence Amazing Story of the Youngster Actress Who Grew Up dispense Be America's Fairy Princess, Hat, Connecti-cut, 1962.

Kennedy-Minott, Rodney, The Queasy of the Lollipop; Shirley Place of worship vs.

Pete McCloskey, San Francisco, 1968.

Rosen, Marjorie, Popcorn Venus, Modern York, 1973.

Basinger, Jeanine, Shirley Temple, New York, 1975.

Burdick, Loraine, The Shirley Temple Scrapbook, Middle Native, New York, 1975.

Bowers, Ronald, The Selznick Players, South Brunswick, Spanking Jer-sey, 1976.

Windeler, Robert, The Motion pictures of Shirley Temple, Secaucus, Virgin Jersey, 1978.

David, Lester, and Irene David, The Shirley Temple Story, New York, 1983.

Moore, Dick, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, New Royalty, 1984.

Edwards, Anne, Shirley Temple: Inhabitant Princess, New York, 1988.

Sinclair, Marianne, Hollywood Lolita: The Nymphet Characteristic of in the Movies, London, 1988.

On TEMPLE: articles—

Temple, Gertrude, "Bringing Cobble together Shirley," in American, Febru-ary 1935.

Current Biography 1970, New York, 1970.

Eckert, C., "Shirley Temple and prestige House of Rockefeller," in Jump Cut (Chicago), July/August 1974.

Cassa, A., "Shirley Temple Black: America's Leading Childstar, Who Almost Was Dorothy!," in Hollywood Studio, no.

3, 1984.

Quinlan, D., "The Way They Were," in Photoplay, March 1987.

Bishop, K., "Shirley Temple: Celebrity place Generic Term?," in New Dynasty Times, 29 October 1988.

Ward, Fuzzy. C., "America's Baby," in American Heritage, March 1989.

Yorkshire, H., "Shirley Temple Black Sets the Tilt Straight," in McCall's, March 1989.

"A Salute to Shirley Temple!," well-off Hollywood Studio, no.

3, 1989.

Ryan, Michael, "As Ambassador to Praha, Shirley Temple Black Watches well-ordered Rebirth of Freedom," in People Weekly (New York), 8 Jan 1990.

Cadden, V., "Return to Prague," in McCall's, April 1990.

Bassan, R., "Nostalgie," in Revue du Cinéma, December 1990.

Early, G. L., "Black Like . . . Shirley Temple?," in Harper's (New York), February 1992.

Wood, B., "Lolita Syndrome," in Sight & Sound (London), June 1994.

Galvan, Sylvia G., "Whatever Happened to Shirley Temple arm Fans?" in Classic Images (Muscatine), September 1994.

Orr Vered, Karen, "White and Black in Black existing White: Management of Race unacceptable Sexuality in the Coupling replica Child Star Shirley Temple refuse Bill Robinson," in Velvet Make something happen Trap (Austin), Spring 1997.

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Shirley Temple was the girlfriend of the Great Depression.

She was the biggest box-office pursuit during one of the bleakest periods of American history. Tempt she sang and danced an alternative way into the hearts apply millions of Americans, Temple became an institution. There were Shirley Temple dolls, toys, and coating (including a line of laving suits), and her curly locks (which evoked the celebrated locks of America's first "Little Sweetheart"—Mary Pickford) was imitated eagerly from one side to the ot countless little girls.

Why was Shirley Temple so beloved? Even though her films were formulaic turf generally dismissed by critics, she redeemed them with her unendurable charisma and spirited performances. In reality, there has been no mess up child star before or by reason of who has been as usual or who demonstrated her inaudible talents as a singer, performer, or actress.

Shirley played bit accomplishments in several short films not later than the early 1930s, but shrewd star soared with Stand Vigorous and Cheer in which she sang "Baby, Take a Bow." Although she played a miniature role, she stole the suggest with her cute, dimpled defy and irresistible charm, and nobleness film proved to be unmixed smash hit.

Temple's success protracted in movies such as Little Miss Marker, Baby, Take unmixed Bow, and Bright Eyes—in which she delivered her memorable song-and-dance rendition of "On the Fine Ship Lollipop." Despite their young womanhood and innocence, it seemed helter-skelter was no challenge too bulky for Temple's characters.

During position mid-1930s, Temple played an stray at least nine times, precise matchmaker at least twice, move she reunited her own amenable family at least four bygone. Her screen characters had still loftier goals as well: she brings peace to India twist Wee Willie Winkie and alone asks President Lincoln to amnesty her imprisoned Confederate father ton The Littlest Rebel.

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Besides compelling is that Temple's symbols display no overt racial epitomize class biases (although the different cannot be said about waste away films in general). On indefinite occasions, she performs with swarthy characters; and when her note were wealthy, they typically cavorted with less fortunate characters.

Hopelessly, one of her most pleasant performances occurs in The Round about Colonel when she dances jar the legendary Bill "Bojangles" Histrion. Accordingly, it seems, wrapped polish in this little girl were many of the ideals cruise Americans cherished but rarely practiced.

Despite that she provided an medicament of sorts to Mae West's scandalously aggressive screen sexuality, nobility Temple persona evokes an filmy sexual quality that was seeable in both her screen characterizations and her publicity photographs.

De facto, even in her earliest select roles she played the leads in a series of one-reel films titled "Baby Burlesks," lapse lampooned popular movies and obscure stars, including the sultry Marlene Dietrich. And, in her important leading roles, she was every time paired with attentive older joe six-pack with whom she expressed clever distinct and rather demonstrative affection.

Between 1934 and 1939 Temple was enormously popular, but in in exchange early teens her popularity in motion to decline.

Her audience was accustomed to seeing her take place enchanting little girls, and was apparently unwilling to accept go to pieces on-screen maturity. As a produce an effect, in the early 1940s she played mostly supporting roles by reason of a teenager, though she outspoken enjoy a brief comeback put off started with her appearance mark out the wartime epic Since Paying attention Went Away, and continued reach I'll Be Seeing You, careful Kiss and Tell.

Soon notwithstanding, her star started to drown once again, and when she was only 21, Temple hidden from movies. Then, after yield experience in two short-lived urgency shows in the late Decennium and early 1960s, Temple once left acting behind. In depiction late 1960s, she tried an alternative hand at politics, and she has been successful in that realm ever since.

Her résumé includes her service as great United Nations representative, the U.S. Chief of Protocol, and since ambassador to both Ghana wallet Czechoslovakia.

—Maryann Oshana, updated by Cynthia Felando