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February 11, 2014
At 85 Shirley Temple Sets Sail On the Good Ship Lollipop
Temple started dancing at Mrs Meglin's Dance Studio in Los Angeles aged three. It was here, in 1931, that she was signed up a series of shorts that parodied famous films with all-child casts. She was paid $10 a day. Stand Up and Cheer was her first feature film in 1934. A year later, aged six, she was the first recipient of a special juvenile Oscar. She holds the record as the youngest ever Oscar winner. Her mother Gertrude did her hair for each movie. Every hairstyle had exactly 56 curls. Temple made 14 short films and 43 features during her acting career.
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I remeber the movies I saw on tv. And I remember the astonishment when I learned she was an ambassador. For all of that she seemed so stunningly normal.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at February 11, 2014 8:16 PM
She knew how to handle the adulation and she knew when to walk away. She was amazingly grounded. Some have said she didn't "have it" when she became a teenager and the end of her career was inevitable. They need to see her holding her own with Carey Grant and a powerful cast in "The Bachelor and the Bobbie Soxer," a hell of a good and funny movie. She wasn't just an ambassador, she was a good ambassador. An exceptional person.
Posted by: Ralph Kinney Bennett at February 12, 2014 4:01 AM
She knew how to handle the adulation and she knew when to walk away. She was amazingly grounded. Some have said she didn't "have it" when she became a teenager and the end of her career was inevitable. They need to see her holding her own with Carey Grant and a powerful cast in "The Bachelor and the Bobbie Soxer," a hell of a good and funny movie. She wasn't just an ambassador, she was a good ambassador. An exceptional person.
Posted by: Ralph Kinney Bennett at February 12, 2014 4:01 AM
She knew how to handle the adulation and she knew when to walk away. She was amazingly grounded. Some have said she didn't "have it" when she became a teenager and the end of her career was inevitable. They need to see her holding her own with Carey Grant and a powerful cast in "The Bachelor and the Bobbie Soxer," a hell of a good and funny movie. She wasn't just an ambassador, she was a good ambassador. An exceptional person.
Posted by: Ralph Kinney Bennett at February 12, 2014 4:01 AM