You can tell by looking at her that she radiates a rare and honest Goodness and it's that ephemeral quality of happy innocence which continues to draw and hold people captive even today.
One of the most beautiful in this world. I loved Heidi..so cute when she made a bed on the hay like when Jesus wss laid on the hay in the manger...i loved her singing on this movie when she sang the hymn. Holy God we praise Thy Name!!!!!
Gosh.. This Shirley Temple movie was so special. I still remember when I was toddler watching this oldies movie and she has mesmerized me with her cute lock, accent and dance. One of the greatest memory I have watched beside Little House on Prairie, Oliver Twist, Donald Duck & Popeye the Sailorman ❤
So adorable little Shirley, 80 years later the charm is still operating with her lovely angel face , what a talented child artist and really a good person too when she grew up... RIP Shirley Temple Black 💖😍👍👍👍
@@lilliangaylor4428 I always loved the Little Princess when I was little. I watched that over and over. My father was older (born in 1923), I grew up in the 80s and 90s, but that movie always made me happy.
SHIRLY TEMPLE -- HOW COULD YOU EVER , EVER DID THOSE SO VERY SMART CONVERSATION WITH OLDER PEOPLE , ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL, WONDEARFUL PERFORMANCES WITH INTELLIGENCE AND WIT .THE WHOLE WORLD REALLY OF SINCERE ADMIRATION .YOU WERE SECOND TO NONE , SWEETHEART, SHIRLY TEMPLE . WE ARE OPTIMISTIC YOU ARE THIS TIME IN THE KINGDOM OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD . YOU WILL ALWAYS BE . ... ( REST IN PEACE ) . ..
@Ariel Flores lol i think if anyone is chomo here it would be YOU!! What's the harm in considering adorable children "cute"??? Shirley Temple was the very DEFINITION of cute - and there's nothing at all wrong with that unless you have a mind that goes off in directions that it simply shouldn't.
@@michelmurphy1979 To play Betsy Booth with title billing opposite Mickey Rooney, one of the top stars at the time, as well as her already famous singing voice made her a "star' well before Wiz of Oz. THAT began her legendary phase
"Little known MGM contract player"?? My goodness, it is known they considered Shirley Temple for WoZ for financials reasons as Judy Garland wasn't near Shirley's level of stardom at the time so they were worried about money. But do we have to pretend like nobody knew who Judy Garland was at the time because of it? In all actuality, she was probably the closest thing MGM had to a Shirley Temple at the time. As much as I enjoy watching Shirley Temple, I don't think that role was right for her anyway. Her own movies all had a common element to them that just wasn't written for Wizard of Oz. But that's ok, cause she made a legacy for her own films.
Well, most of the Wizard of Oz as we know it was developed after they started filming with Judy Garland. So, for all we know, the original version of the movie would have been in tone with Shirley Temple.
Given how Judy was put on a strict diet and a steady cocktail of drugs and no sleep to meet the rigorous filming schedule commitments... I am glad Shirley did not end up in that role. Because it ruined Judy for life. Pity it had to happen to ANYONE at all.
@@sunshinesmile94 Wizard of Oz definitely did things to Judy Garland that would be appalling were they to happen to any child actress now, but I wouldn't blame WoZ solely for Judy Garland's anxieties and drug addiction. I would blame the studio in general as that happened to several MGM stars who were not on set and happened to Judy throughout pretty much her entire time at MGM. Had Shirley Temple been on it; likely would have been different for her in those regards as MGM didn't have the image ideas for her they did for Judy and Shirley didn't have the same anxieties as Judy causing her not to be able to sleep then be given uppers to wake her up from the sleeping pills. Course, I don't think Shirley would have been treated well on the set regardless. They'd likely have treated her very badly attitude wise because they didn't want her for the role. MGM did have a habit of doing that when they were forced to deal with an actor/actress they didn't want on set.
Shirley Temple has been my favorite for years. In fact I consider her a fabulous credit to the world. She helped millions of people in very trying times by her movies. I find it hard to believe that generations today can't support her contributions in film. Child abuse and other crap is beyond belief. Shirley Temple and people of those iconic years offer far more than anybody today.
In other words, $1,000 in 1936 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $18,065.24 in 2018, a difference of $17,065.24 over 82 years. So a $1000 a week was indeed a lot of money back then. $150 a week back in 1936 would be equivalent to about $2,709.79 in 2018, a difference of $2,559.79 over 82 years.
Let's face it, Hollywood used, abused and exploited studio talent. Shirley was irresistible, literally precious, and the camera picked that up. I've always felt that, with children, they should be loved, helped, and otherwise left alone to become whatever they wish to be.. Actors and actresses had to maintain their "allure" constantly, or be demoted to nothingness after long years on the Hollywood chain gang. That is not a suitable course of childhood. I understand that this is somewhat of an exaggeration. But I've studied Hollywood's shady past for years, like most of us here watching these fabulous documentaries on You Tube. We know the fractured score. That said, as a little girl myself, I, too, loved Shirley Temple and her films. She was so talented that she seemed destined to be something more than just a normal little kid riding her bike up and down the block and playing with dolls.Instead, she became America's "doll." A pretty plaything for box office gold. PS. Thank heavens Judy Garland was given "The Wizard Of Oz." She was sublime, and her role is now iconic - no generation does not know her in it. She also cemented L. Frank Baum in the mind of the public, insuring that his great children's book would be recognized as one of the greatest ever.
Thank you for this excellent biographical account of one of the movie stars I admired as I was growing up in the mid-1900s. Oh, what inspiring movies were made with Shirley Temple as a child star. And yes, I also sensed a loss of that quality of a child when she grew to be a teenager and later an adult actress. And yet, she aspired to be more, even after she left Hollywood, to pursue public service for our country.
In this dark time, it is an encouragement to me to be able to look back to a happier time when life was less complicated, ok this girl grew up during the Great Depression and she spread happiness and joy to everyone who saw her movies, what a wonderful lesson. I pray that I can be like that.
Does anyone else wonder whether she looks like William James Sidis? I think Lena Horne, Ambassador Clinton's mother, my own Chicago Nana, Elizabeth Taylor, and so many others, perhaps even the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and, as one of the guys with that look, Austin Kutcher, all also look rather like William James Sidis, the supposedly super-genius son of Mrs. Sara Sidis the Ukranian physician and Harvard Medical School Professor wife of Boris Sidis, also faculty at HMS, and William James himself, who apparently "fell" for Dr. Sara Sidis in a weak moment. Many English geniuses and influential people seem to look rather like William James, but not very many English people resemble Sidis, who seems to have been an influential "donor" mainly in the US and the USSR. During the years between Reconstruction and WWII, The Powers that Were in America were keen to breed a race of "geniuses", here as well as in the Third Reich (the Nazi's originally got their Eugenics ideas from us in England and the U.S., according to Edwin Black's book called The War Against the Weak.) Once you realize that "Eugenics" happened on this side of the Atlantic as well as in Europe, often but not always with the second child of an up and coming middle class family, often but not always with the mother's consent, it changes the way you look at the outstanding talents of yore. The Eugenicists in America were afraid that America would be over run by "inferior" genetic stock from Eastern and Southern Europe and other, non-Caucasian immigrants, so they decided to "replace" the supposedly inferior genetic material with genetic material from "genius" sperm, creating one supposedly genius child per family, usually after the wife had proved her health ad suitability for such gifting by producing a healthy first pregnancy. They seemed to believe this because there had been a rash of mentally retarded children being born at that time among the families of first generation immigrants, but my theory as to why this might have been so is completely different from that of the eugenicists. My theory is that many of the genes that cause epilepsy (and thus mental retardation in children with chronic, untreated, ongoing daily seizures from a genetic or metabolic cause) are actually famine survival genes, that work to protect mothers and babies against nutritional deficiency in single copy but that cause epilepsy in double copy as the scavenged nutrient, be it protein, sodium, iron, or potassium, builds up to unmanageable, toxic levels. This would work in a way analogous to the way the hereditary anemias protect against malaria: if just one spouse in a marriage carries one copy, then half the children are protected, but if both the husband and the wife carry the gene, one fourth of the children will carry double copies and have a hereditary disease. My theory is that the European famines, such as the Irish Potato Famine, the Swedish Famine that sent some of my ancestors to the New World from the poor agricultural province of Smoland, and other similar famines, selected for the carriers of these "famine survival genes" to be the most energetic, robust young people in each farm village. When the famines hit, they were the young men and women with the "moxie" to get on a boat to the New World and go and homestead a farm. Once on our side of the pond, they tended to marry one another, and lo, one fourth of the children of the famine surviving generation (if survivors from the same region married one another) would wind up with double copies of one of these genes and wind up with a congenital epilepsy causing mental retardation via toxicity from the nutrient and also from the relentless seizures themselves. This utterly contradicts the theories of the eugenics movement who believed there were "good" IQ genes and "bad" IQ genes. My theory says that the mental retardation genes and the genius genes are often some of the SAME genes (if they're "famine survival genes" that help scavenge or help cope with scarce nutrients.) But the problem causing mental retardation, according to my theory, is not "bad genes". It's consanguinity, a problem that the Eugenics movement' practices were bound to exacerbate, when the grandchildren of the genius donors would grow up to meet one another in college. ("It has not escaped our notice" that this theory of mine would explain why the ketogenic diet works for so many different types of epilepsy. It might well work by mimicking the dietary conditions, namely famine, to which many epileptic children's genes are best adapted.) (My own college prom date, I later realized, was a genetic first cousin of mine, though not, as some of our friends imagined might be the case due to our similar looks, a half brother. Similarly, one of my college suite mates was likely another first cousin of mine, and my prom date's likely half sister -- but not mine. Since my dad was NOT a eugenics program sperm donor, as far as I know, if I have any half siblings at all, they are few and far between, and most likely would be at least a decade younger than I am! young enough to be, say, a mere medical student on one of my teams when I was already an intern or resident with a PhD. If I ever meet an MD PhD with my same interests -- at that age it was the evolution of the structure of genetically conserved protein domains -- and who shares my commitment to courteous and considerate care, and who looks just like my dad looked at that age in his passport photos, only then will I suspect I have met my own half-sib. I would especially suspect it if he had similar interests and languages and hobbies and dating history to my own-- for example, I am fluent in Mandarin and I would have married a Chinese-speaking, ethnically Chinese classmate (whose face and understanding of how to stage an event resembled those of the opera composer, Wagner), had unfavorable circumstances not intervened. But I wouldn't just blurt it out to said potential half-sib. Instead, I'd invite him to lunch, in a big sisterly, in order to show him family photos, and to ask him if HE had any idea of how we might be related, because of course he could turn out to be merely yet another cousin, thanks to the ubiquity of the eugenics program in the USA during our grandparents' era.) At any rate, whatever the genetic roots of her superior intellect, Shirley Temple was certainly a bright light as a precocious talent. I think it is lovely that her experience as a child movie star was not allowed to constrict her adult interests and career choices, and that she was allowed to make her own way as an adult, as a career diplomat.
They should NEVER have had Shirley Temple singing at age 3 or 4 years.... SHE WAS FAR TO YOUNG! Singing talent in a child doesn't really start to develop until he or she is about 7 or 8 years old. Sally Boyden of Australian TV's "Young Talent Time" is a prime example of this. Debuting on the show in 1973 at age 7(she would turn 8 during that year), she would be given the song "Nothing Rhymed", written in 1971 by Gilbert O'Sullivan and had already been recorded by O'Sullivan himself, as well as Tom Jones. The performance of the song by little Sally Boyden put both O'Sullivan AND Jones "in the shade". But if she'd done the song in 1971 as a 6-year-old contestant, the performance would've been nowhere near as good, and may well have put Sally off the idea of singing and dancing altogether.
@@dmkuchins6646 You'd be an exception to the general rule. Usually, when 4-to-5-year-old toddlers try to sing, it sounds like a squeal because their vocal chords have not yet matured enough to sing properly.
Boy I still love her and still watch her at least 3 to 4 times a week. I just can’t get enough of singing and her movies. I may be a great grand mother and I did not see on of her movies until I was 25.
As an over 50 adult, I STILL LOVE watching her movies.... ALL of them! It's sad that people couldn't accept her maturing as they accepted Elizabeth Taylor.... but, then again, Elizabeth Taylor wasn't the child star that Shirley was. Maybe it was a good thing she didn't find that kind of Hollywood success as she grew up; because of that, she met and married her wonderfully handsome second husband and had great success in more important areas of life that she truly enjoyed. For me, she will always be the most precious child actor who grew up to be one of the most beautiful women of substance. I liken Dickie Moore to Shirley and Dean Stockwell to Elizabeth - as far as child stars who were accepted as they aged. I wish we had Shirley Temple Black with us still.... She was never involved in scandal, was very well liked by all her knew her and she was always carried herself as a lady....
she really did retain her charm, and beauty... albeit "cute as a button" became "pretty as a rose". most super 'adorable' child actors lose their 'bankable' qualities to 'bad luck' after puberty. not Shirley... funny, I was a little kid in the 70s and I didn't realize she had done her 'child' films DECADES before I was born.. she was a 'kid, just like me' ..in the 70s in my mind.
When i was about 8 years old, i saw the movie Heidi on the television. It made an IMMENSE impression on me, and i am eternally grateful that such a movie and such a wonderful person existed!!
Same here! It was my favorite of hers, and I saw it right after reading the novel, which also had a huge effect on me. Shirley didn't disappoint. She WAS Heidi!
I would hope that ANY Shirley Temple fan didn't like that film. It was disgusting the way they would make Shirley at that young age to wear those short dresses! I agree, that film WAS tasteless!
In a perfect universe, Shirley Temple would have lived in the same era as Mr. (Fred) Rogers, and would have appeared on "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." The resulting film footage would have been incandescent. 😳
Marcy Raykowski It kinda seems like she was an audible learner! Her costar from The Frolics of Youth mentioned her mother would read her the lines every night. She must have been very intelligent too, considering how she far she branched outside of acting as an adult 😊
Whenever I see video about Shirley Temple, the thought crosses my mind: "I wonder what Shirley's daughter, Lori Black, thinks of this?" Why would that come to mind? Lori was a classmate of mine at Woodside High School, Redwood City, California, graduating class of 1972. We were in the same English class in our 12th (senior year) grade. The lasting impression Lori left with me, along with other former classmates when we compared notes at reunions, was how remarkably quiet and reserved she was in high school. All of us were aware of Lori being the daughter of Shirley Temple, but none of us made a fuss about it; as Lori was treated as any other student. Lori's low-profile in high school can be verified when checking the high school yearbook with regards to the Class of '72 student activities for the years of 9 through 12. In that well-detailed directory there's nothing listed for Lori; which meant she did not participate in extracurricular activities; such as drama productions, music groups, student organizations, or other activities approved by the school during her high school years. The Black's residence, in Woodside, California, was close to the high school campus, where Lori walked to-and-from school. For a person whose mother was a highly prominent person in America, it's amazing to know that Lori was notable in high school for being, what some would consider, a _wallflower_ among her fellow students.
I think it must be hard for kids of celebrities, especially the huge, adored ones. When they look at you, when they know or meet you, they are always thinking of your parent. And you also have to live up to them.
Like Bart says. You have to put things in context. Something that society today finds ok, may not be in 80 years from now. People who are deeper thinkers always put things in context. The world once accepted chattle slavery. How will society look at abortion 100 years from now?
@@danbike9 Even in context the movie was disgusting, parents weren’t allowed on set and Shirley Temple herself said that the children were put in an ice box if they misbehaved. It was wrong then and it’s wrong now, but people didn’t care about child exploitation because they wanted money.
@@thenablade858 Eve, today there are views that are socially acceptable in certain parts of the world that are not social acceptable in other parts of the world. There is an actual sex slave trade involving children, pre-teen and teen girls happening today - right now! Certain groups (civilian and political) bring this up ... but society as a whole make little fuss over this huge problem. It is ignored in the media for the most part. It took William Wilberforce, a lone voice in British Parliament, decades to garner enough support -- political and civilian -- to abolish the North Atlantic Slave Trade. Why so long? Because slavery is a "normal" part in human history -- it was a socially acceptable idea. It took a brave Christian man to buck the system. Wilberforce used God and man made laws to reverse the support of the North Atlantic Slave Trade. He enlisted his pastor friend, John Newton as his spiritual advisor. Newton, in his younger days, was a slave ship captain, turned pastor and devote Christian and a leader to abolish North Atlantic Slave Trade. He is also the writer of 'Amazing Grace'. Those lyrics right from that man's heart. Powerful! ________ Today, right now slavery still is acceptable in certain African and Eastern cultures. It is happening right NOW! But not enough people care enough to talk about it, let alone fight it. So it goes on and on and on......
She looked like she loved what she was doing acting singing dancing. Those dimples I've never seen on another as if she was pinched by an angel! Adorable sweet smart talented and confident. What a great mom she had. I'm glad she was protected like a valuable gem and treated like a princess. Yes, she worked but, she seemed to really enjoy it.
She was exploited sexually as a child in adult situations and outfits, inappropriate contact with all of the males in every movie she was in and she wasn't older than 3-4 when it all started... And you think she loved and enjoyed it? It was disgusting and my heart breaks for her being exposed this way. She didn't know any better it any different 😢
@@jeniferm123 She grew up in a completely different time period. In an era where many were starving. She did enjoy bring in Hollywood and plowed though certain things. She laughed when a man showed her his private parts at 12 embarrassing the man into shame. She had a personality that could handle those things luckily. Sure, not ideal in any case but certainly we cannot put our modern ideals onto her and try to say her life would have been better otherwise.
@@jeniferm123 She did enjoy acting for the most part. The Baby Burlesks were very disturbing, granted. But her mainstream films were another matter. Just because adult males showed her affection and she showed affection to them on-screen does NOT mean that anything inappropriate was going on. Her mother was there, off-camera, and the crew was all around.
there is no mention to the Little colonel ,movie where Shirley dances with bill robinson. that was great who has done this documental ? the ku klux klan?
yes julia, i watched bio of bill robinson there speak a lot of the Little colonel and the relationship betwen Shirley and bil but maybe was more important for bill tan for shirley
@@cesarchincaro4486 No, if you read her autobiography Child Star you find out how important Bill Robinson was to her. She loved him. She wanted him to come visit her in her home and go visit him at his home. She did not understand why he said no to it. I can't recall if he ever did visit her home, but he would not allow her to his house because of the times. She had a near death experience while in the hospital, and she saw his spirit come into the room. He was inviting her to join him in the afterlife. People believe he molested her, but there is no mention of it in her book. Plus, it would be suicide in those days for a black man to try that with a white female.
@@DesertMouse298 yes you have reason now i know more about the relationship betwen shirley and bill they loved each other alonglife. i exagerated i expected watch them dance but this bio is excellent
The Studio did not buy Shirley the car, Bill Bojangles gave it to her as a Birthday gift. That actress in this video knows this as at the time it was a huge scandal to everyone but Shirley, her Mom and Mr Bojangles.
Maybe you should read about the abuse she went through making these movies. She went through hell and back. Imagine a little girl making these movies today and how they sexually exploited her. I love Shirley's movies but when I watched her talk about what she went through I couldn't watch them with the same energy anymore. People are just horrible.
GypsyFairy85 Yes because Shirley was in movies in the 30s before television and Ronny wasn’t on tv until 1960. Shirley was a great actress but her audience had no choice no TV.
I can only pray that this, then, little girl got through Hollywood without being picked apart by all the predators & pedophiles. It had them then & it certainly has them now.
@@irenemorley75 Let's face it, Hollywood exploited her natural beauty and sweetness. And so did everyone else in the world. She was beloved and used, to make people feel better about themselves.
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$1000 per week and another $250 for her mother when families were starving during the Depression. Just shows how much she was worth. That would be over $115,000 per week now.
You can tell by looking at her that she radiates a rare and honest Goodness and it's that ephemeral quality of happy innocence which continues to draw and hold people captive even today.
*Shirley Temple* ~ America's National Treasure! I grew up watching her movies in B&W as a kid, I loved old movies WAY better than cartoons! LOL :)
Born with the perfect disposition that's a rarity in its self
God blessed for sure
Real life angel we could all cherish
@An Oasis Can howdy what . it was fake and has no comparison to SHIRLEY ARE YOU EVEN ON THE CORRECT VID TO COMMENT😕?
@@dabdella1460 Shirley was treated like trash behind the scenes
@@ishratkhan2790 yes I read that on utube and it is heartbreaking. Such a sweet child
I hope her mother and all others involved are paying dearly now.
One of the most beautiful in this world. I loved Heidi..so cute when she made a bed on the hay like when Jesus wss laid on the hay in the manger...i loved her singing on this movie when she sang the hymn. Holy God we praise Thy Name!!!!!
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I loved watching her movies. As a little girl i would cry her movies were so sad. And I still watch her movies. Love her
Thank you for this look at her life , not only as an adorable child star but as a successful adult politician.!
Gosh.. This Shirley Temple movie was so special. I still remember when I was toddler watching this oldies movie and she has mesmerized me with her cute lock, accent and dance. One of the greatest memory I have watched beside Little House on Prairie, Oliver Twist, Donald Duck & Popeye the Sailorman ❤
Never get tired of watching her. What a sweetheart
I love her alltime.
So adorable little Shirley, 80 years later the charm is still operating with her lovely angel face , what a talented child artist and really a good person too when she grew up... RIP Shirley Temple Black 💖😍👍👍👍
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@@lilliangaylor4428 I always loved the Little Princess when I was little. I watched that over and over. My father was older (born in 1923), I grew up in the 80s and 90s, but that movie always made me happy.
So true, she gave us sparks, glitter, many many smiles and tears. Bless Shirley Temple Black’s family in present time. I have all her DVD movies.
Shirley Temple is a gorgeous little girl
I enjoyed this story of her life, I grew up in the post war era and her joy has stuck with me all these years.
SHIRLY TEMPLE -- HOW COULD YOU EVER , EVER DID THOSE SO VERY SMART CONVERSATION WITH OLDER PEOPLE , ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL, WONDEARFUL PERFORMANCES WITH INTELLIGENCE AND WIT .THE WHOLE WORLD REALLY OF SINCERE ADMIRATION .YOU WERE SECOND TO NONE , SWEETHEART, SHIRLY TEMPLE . WE ARE OPTIMISTIC YOU ARE THIS TIME IN THE KINGDOM OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD . YOU WILL ALWAYS BE . ... ( REST IN PEACE ) . ..
I watched The Little Princess when I was quite young. And it's the first memory I have of crying over a movie.
I only remember this because I felt so embarrassed because my family, who was baby sitting me, laughed at me for crying lol.
Cutest child actor, ever when I was a little boy I thought she was the cutest thing!
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@Ariel Flores lol i think if anyone is chomo here it would be YOU!! What's the harm in considering adorable children "cute"??? Shirley Temple was the very DEFINITION of cute - and there's nothing at all wrong with that unless you have a mind that goes off in directions that it simply shouldn't.
She is so cute ❤️😂
Judy Garland was hardly "unknown" before the Wizard of Oz; her appearances in the Andy Hardy films had already made her a star
Judy's profile was rising but Wizard of Oz made her a star.
@@michelmurphy1979 To play Betsy Booth with title billing opposite Mickey Rooney, one of the top stars at the time, as well as her already famous singing voice made her a "star' well before Wiz of Oz. THAT began her legendary phase
Shirley temple was so adorable my favorite actress
Love her! 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐
Shirley Temple entering heaven as she 9 years old girl
"Little known MGM contract player"?? My goodness, it is known they considered Shirley Temple for WoZ for financials reasons as Judy Garland wasn't near Shirley's level of stardom at the time so they were worried about money. But do we have to pretend like nobody knew who Judy Garland was at the time because of it? In all actuality, she was probably the closest thing MGM had to a Shirley Temple at the time.
As much as I enjoy watching Shirley Temple, I don't think that role was right for her anyway. Her own movies all had a common element to them that just wasn't written for Wizard of Oz. But that's ok, cause she made a legacy for her own films.
Well, most of the Wizard of Oz as we know it was developed after they started filming with Judy Garland. So, for all we know, the original version of the movie would have been in tone with Shirley Temple.
Shirley could only do baby singing and Judy Garland had a blessed talented voice and was chosen to do W of O fir that reason💪🏼
Arthur Reid is giggle funny read Shirley's obit on him no wonder Judy was so disturbed.
Given how Judy was put on a strict diet and a steady cocktail of drugs and no sleep to meet the rigorous filming schedule commitments... I am glad Shirley did not end up in that role. Because it ruined Judy for life. Pity it had to happen to ANYONE at all.
@@sunshinesmile94 Wizard of Oz definitely did things to Judy Garland that would be appalling were they to happen to any child actress now, but I wouldn't blame WoZ solely for Judy Garland's anxieties and drug addiction. I would blame the studio in general as that happened to several MGM stars who were not on set and happened to Judy throughout pretty much her entire time at MGM.
Had Shirley Temple been on it; likely would have been different for her in those regards as MGM didn't have the image ideas for her they did for Judy and Shirley didn't have the same anxieties as Judy causing her not to be able to sleep then be given uppers to wake her up from the sleeping pills. Course, I don't think Shirley would have been treated well on the set regardless. They'd likely have treated her very badly attitude wise because they didn't want her for the role. MGM did have a habit of doing that when they were forced to deal with an actor/actress they didn't want on set.
Shirley Temple has been my favorite for years. In fact I consider her a fabulous credit to the world. She helped millions of people in very trying times by her movies.
I find it hard to believe that generations today can't support her contributions in film. Child abuse and other crap is beyond belief. Shirley Temple and people of those iconic years offer far more than anybody today.
sooo sweet! Everybody´s best girl...
So sweet beatiful and pretty
Best child star ever was shirley temple
I Love you Shirley Temple 💋Indian 🇮🇳 Little Darling
It is sad how isolated she was.
Godspeed to you, Shirley Temple-Black! 🌻🌻🌻
In other words, $1,000 in 1936 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $18,065.24 in 2018, a difference of $17,065.24 over 82 years. So a $1000 a week was indeed a lot of money back then. $150 a week back in 1936 would be equivalent to about $2,709.79 in 2018, a difference of $2,559.79 over 82 years.
shirley temple is cute and fun😃
My Mom went to the Meglin Dance Studio.
SURELY A GODDESS HAS WALKED AMONG US !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's face it, Hollywood used, abused and exploited studio talent. Shirley was irresistible, literally precious, and the camera picked that up. I've always felt that, with children, they should be loved, helped, and otherwise left alone to become whatever they wish to be.. Actors and actresses had to maintain their "allure" constantly, or be demoted to nothingness after long years on the Hollywood chain gang. That is not a suitable course of childhood. I understand that this is somewhat of an exaggeration. But I've studied Hollywood's shady past for years, like most of us here watching these fabulous documentaries on You Tube. We know the fractured score. That said, as a little girl myself, I, too, loved Shirley Temple and her films. She was so talented that she seemed destined to be something more than just a normal little kid riding her bike up and down the block and playing with dolls.Instead, she became America's "doll." A pretty plaything for box office gold. PS. Thank heavens Judy Garland was given "The Wizard Of Oz." She was sublime, and her role is now iconic - no generation does not know her in it. She also cemented L. Frank Baum in the mind of the public, insuring that his great children's book would be recognized as one of the greatest ever.
Lord Jesus please bless Shirley Temple rest in peace in Jesus name
Thank you for this excellent biographical account of one of the movie stars I admired as I was growing up in the mid-1900s. Oh, what inspiring movies were made with Shirley Temple as a child star. And yes, I also sensed a loss of that quality of a child when she grew to be a teenager and later an adult actress. And yet, she aspired to be more, even after she left Hollywood, to pursue public service for our country.
In this dark time, it is an encouragement to me to be able to look back to a happier time when life was less complicated, ok this girl grew up during the Great Depression and she spread happiness and joy to everyone who saw her movies, what a wonderful lesson. I pray that I can be like that.
I'm here UN with my biological mother and father in the south they were actors also.
48 hrs mistery
Could anyone know WHY I feel so EXHAUSTED😛
Indian darling I Love you Shirley Jane I Love you Temple 💘🇮🇳🇺🇸 I like you Shirley Temple 💋 I'm sudhan 💘
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Genius child star façe is too mature
She had a cute child's face.
This guy talking about Shirley Temple is just a blogger making up crap about me, Loretta Burris Ferguson, Shirley Temple.
Does anyone else wonder whether she looks like William James Sidis? I think Lena Horne, Ambassador Clinton's mother, my own Chicago Nana, Elizabeth Taylor, and so many others, perhaps even the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and, as one of the guys with that look, Austin Kutcher, all also look rather like William James Sidis, the supposedly super-genius son of Mrs. Sara Sidis the Ukranian physician and Harvard Medical School Professor wife of Boris Sidis, also faculty at HMS, and William James himself, who apparently "fell" for Dr. Sara Sidis in a weak moment. Many English geniuses and influential people seem to look rather like William James, but not very many English people resemble Sidis, who seems to have been an influential "donor" mainly in the US and the USSR.
During the years between Reconstruction and WWII, The Powers that Were in America were keen to breed a race of "geniuses", here as well as in the Third Reich (the Nazi's originally got their Eugenics ideas from us in England and the U.S., according to Edwin Black's book called The War Against the Weak.) Once you realize that "Eugenics" happened on this side of the Atlantic as well as in Europe, often but not always with the second child of an up and coming middle class family, often but not always with the mother's consent, it changes the way you look at the outstanding talents of yore.
The Eugenicists in America were afraid that America would be over run by "inferior" genetic stock from Eastern and Southern Europe and other, non-Caucasian immigrants, so they decided to "replace" the supposedly inferior genetic material with genetic material from "genius" sperm, creating one supposedly genius child per family, usually after the wife had proved her health ad suitability for such gifting by producing a healthy first pregnancy. They seemed to believe this because there had been a rash of mentally retarded children being born at that time among the families of first generation immigrants, but my theory as to why this might have been so is completely different from that of the eugenicists.
My theory is that many of the genes that cause epilepsy (and thus mental retardation in children with chronic, untreated, ongoing daily seizures from a genetic or metabolic cause) are actually famine survival genes, that work to protect mothers and babies against nutritional deficiency in single copy but that cause epilepsy in double copy as the scavenged nutrient, be it protein, sodium, iron, or potassium, builds up to unmanageable, toxic levels. This would work in a way analogous to the way the hereditary anemias protect against malaria: if just one spouse in a marriage carries one copy, then half the children are protected, but if both the husband and the wife carry the gene, one fourth of the children will carry double copies and have a hereditary disease.
My theory is that the European famines, such as the Irish Potato Famine, the Swedish Famine that sent some of my ancestors to the New World from the poor agricultural province of Smoland, and other similar famines, selected for the carriers of these "famine survival genes" to be the most energetic, robust young people in each farm village. When the famines hit, they were the young men and women with the "moxie" to get on a boat to the New World and go and homestead a farm. Once on our side of the pond, they tended to marry one another, and lo, one fourth of the children of the famine surviving generation (if survivors from the same region married one another) would wind up with double copies of one of these genes and wind up with a congenital epilepsy causing mental retardation via toxicity from the nutrient and also from the relentless seizures themselves.
This utterly contradicts the theories of the eugenics movement who believed there were "good" IQ genes and "bad" IQ genes. My theory says that the mental retardation genes and the genius genes are often some of the SAME genes (if they're "famine survival genes" that help scavenge or help cope with scarce nutrients.) But the problem causing mental retardation, according to my theory, is not "bad genes". It's consanguinity, a problem that the Eugenics movement' practices were bound to exacerbate, when the grandchildren of the genius donors would grow up to meet one another in college. ("It has not escaped our notice" that this theory of mine would explain why the ketogenic diet works for so many different types of epilepsy. It might well work by mimicking the dietary conditions, namely famine, to which many epileptic children's genes are best adapted.)
(My own college prom date, I later realized, was a genetic first cousin of mine, though not, as some of our friends imagined might be the case due to our similar looks, a half brother. Similarly, one of my college suite mates was likely another first cousin of mine, and my prom date's likely half sister -- but not mine. Since my dad was NOT a eugenics program sperm donor, as far as I know, if I have any half siblings at all, they are few and far between, and most likely would be at least a decade younger than I am! young enough to be, say, a mere medical student on one of my teams when I was already an intern or resident with a PhD. If I ever meet an MD PhD with my same interests -- at that age it was the evolution of the structure of genetically conserved protein domains -- and who shares my commitment to courteous and considerate care, and who looks just like my dad looked at that age in his passport photos, only then will I suspect I have met my own half-sib. I would especially suspect it if he had similar interests and languages and hobbies and dating history to my own-- for example, I am fluent in Mandarin and I would have married a Chinese-speaking, ethnically Chinese classmate (whose face and understanding of how to stage an event resembled those of the opera composer, Wagner), had unfavorable circumstances not intervened. But I wouldn't just blurt it out to said potential half-sib. Instead, I'd invite him to lunch, in a big sisterly, in order to show him family photos, and to ask him if HE had any idea of how we might be related, because of course he could turn out to be merely yet another cousin, thanks to the ubiquity of the eugenics program in the USA during our grandparents' era.)
At any rate, whatever the genetic roots of her superior intellect, Shirley Temple was certainly a bright light as a precocious talent. I think it is lovely that her experience as a child movie star was not allowed to constrict her adult interests and career choices, and that she was allowed to make her own way as an adult, as a career diplomat.
They should NEVER have had Shirley Temple singing at age 3 or 4 years.... SHE WAS FAR TO YOUNG! Singing talent in a child doesn't really start to develop until he or she is about 7 or 8 years old. Sally Boyden of Australian TV's "Young Talent Time" is a prime example of this. Debuting on the show in 1973 at age 7(she would turn 8 during that year), she would be given the song "Nothing Rhymed", written in 1971 by Gilbert O'Sullivan and had already been recorded by O'Sullivan himself, as well as Tom Jones. The performance of the song by little Sally Boyden put both O'Sullivan AND Jones "in the shade". But if she'd done the song in 1971 as a 6-year-old contestant, the performance would've been nowhere near as good, and may well have put Sally off the idea of singing and dancing altogether.
not true. i remember being able to sing well at ages 4-5.
@@dmkuchins6646 You'd be an exception to the general rule. Usually, when 4-to-5-year-old toddlers try to sing, it sounds like a squeal because their vocal chords have not yet matured enough to sing properly.
Shirley's mclanes mother and father produced and the films were ours. I'm 🦁 opraetta, I'm actors association, and ordained ministry.
This Documentary had the GALL to Omit Mr. Bill Bojangle Robinson, A BLACKMAN, who taught her how to Tap Dance! Ain't THAT a BITCH?
Super cute when little and so average looking as grown up lady ...
She was beautiful all her life, jealous much.
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Who ever picked out those costumes she had to wear had to be some 70 year old x Catholic Priest
Boy I still love her and still watch her at least 3 to 4 times a week. I just can’t get enough of singing and her movies. I may be a great grand mother and I did not see on of her movies until I was 25.
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As an over 50 adult, I STILL LOVE watching her movies.... ALL of them! It's sad that people couldn't accept her maturing as they accepted Elizabeth Taylor.... but, then again, Elizabeth Taylor wasn't the child star that Shirley was. Maybe it was a good thing she didn't find that kind of Hollywood success as she grew up; because of that, she met and married her wonderfully handsome second husband and had great success in more important areas of life that she truly enjoyed. For me, she will always be the most precious child actor who grew up to be one of the most beautiful women of substance. I liken Dickie Moore to Shirley and Dean Stockwell to Elizabeth - as far as child stars who were accepted as they aged. I wish we had Shirley Temple Black with us still.... She was never involved in scandal, was very well liked by all her knew her and she was always carried herself as a lady....
Do you love young children, when you watch a lot. this is such a disease, such pedophilia, that the campaign for balenciaga lemonade you for it
She was still adorable as an adult too. She never lost that cute appearance!
Like # 84 agrees. Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer is one of my favs.
KL I agree
she became a beautiful lady when she grewed up.
@@rosethxr she sure did!!! She is GIFTED in many Areas. . . !!
Such a beautiful, talented little girl that became a gift of many as she invited us into heart !!!
she really did retain her charm, and beauty... albeit "cute as a button" became "pretty as a rose". most super 'adorable' child actors lose their 'bankable' qualities to 'bad luck' after puberty. not Shirley... funny, I was a little kid in the 70s and I didn't realize she had done her 'child' films DECADES before I was born.. she was a 'kid, just like me' ..in the 70s in my mind.
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I too, was a child of the seventies.. And, it's funny, I thought the same thing.. 😂 Just adore and adored her! May God rest her Sweet Soul! ❤️🌹🌺
Like the kid from the 6th sense, poor dude got deformed after puberty. 😮
When i was about 8 years old, i saw the movie Heidi on the television. It made an IMMENSE impression on me, and i am eternally grateful that such a movie and such a wonderful person existed!!
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Same here! It was my favorite of hers, and I saw it right after reading the novel, which also had a huge effect on me. Shirley didn't disappoint. She WAS Heidi!
I don't like baby burlesque.
You have no idea what burlesque is, you know what it means today, but it was good clean family entertainment.
Your too stupid to know what burlesque was back then.
@thatgirl2XX1 Just because you say so don't make it real.
I would hope that ANY Shirley Temple fan didn't like that film. It was disgusting the way they would make Shirley at that young age to wear those short dresses! I agree, that film WAS tasteless!
@@noway9369 Nobody "liked" your comments. That should tell you something
Shirley. What a wonderful, wonderful person.
In a perfect universe, Shirley Temple would have lived in the same era as Mr. (Fred) Rogers, and would have appeared on "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." The resulting film footage would have been incandescent. 😳
How did she remember all those lines?
Marcy Raykowski It kinda seems like she was an audible learner! Her costar from The Frolics of Youth mentioned her mother would read her the lines every night. She must have been very intelligent too, considering how she far she branched outside of acting as an adult 😊
Whenever I see video about Shirley Temple, the thought crosses my mind: "I wonder what Shirley's daughter, Lori Black, thinks of this?"
Why would that come to mind? Lori was a classmate of mine at Woodside High School, Redwood City, California, graduating class of 1972. We were in the same English class in our 12th (senior year) grade.
The lasting impression Lori left with me, along with other former classmates when we compared notes at reunions, was how remarkably quiet and reserved she was in high school. All of us were aware of Lori being the daughter of Shirley Temple, but none of us made a fuss about it; as Lori was treated as any other student.
Lori's low-profile in high school can be verified when checking the high school yearbook with regards to the Class of '72 student activities for the years of 9 through 12. In that well-detailed directory there's nothing listed for Lori; which meant she did not participate in extracurricular activities; such as drama productions, music groups, student organizations, or other activities approved by the school during her high school years.
The Black's residence, in Woodside, California, was close to the high school campus, where Lori walked to-and-from school.
For a person whose mother was a highly prominent person in America, it's amazing to know that Lori was notable in high school for being, what some would consider, a _wallflower_ among her fellow students.
I think it must be hard for kids of celebrities, especially the huge, adored ones. When they look at you, when they know or meet you, they are always thinking of your parent. And you also have to live up to them.
THAT MOVIE BABY BURLQUES IS DISGUSTING
It was all in good fun. You have to put it in the context of the time. Not everything is “dirty”
Like Bart says. You have to put things in context.
Something that society today finds ok, may not be in 80 years from now.
People who are deeper thinkers always put things in context.
The world once accepted chattle slavery.
How will society look at abortion 100 years from now?
@@bartmadness830 Even in context, it was very inappropriate.
@@danbike9 Even in context the movie was disgusting, parents weren’t allowed on set and Shirley Temple herself said that the children were put in an ice box if they misbehaved. It was wrong then and it’s wrong now, but people didn’t care about child exploitation because they wanted money.
@@thenablade858 Eve, today there are views that are socially acceptable in certain parts of the world that are not social acceptable in other parts of the world.
There is an actual sex slave trade involving children, pre-teen and teen girls happening today - right now!
Certain groups (civilian and political) bring this up ... but society as a whole make little fuss over this huge problem. It is ignored in the media for the most part.
It took William Wilberforce, a lone voice in British Parliament, decades to garner enough support -- political and civilian -- to abolish the North Atlantic Slave Trade. Why so long?
Because slavery is a "normal" part in human history -- it was a socially acceptable idea. It took a brave Christian man to buck the system.
Wilberforce used God and man made laws to reverse the support of the North Atlantic Slave Trade.
He enlisted his pastor friend, John Newton as his spiritual advisor.
Newton, in his younger days, was a slave ship captain, turned pastor and devote Christian and a leader to abolish North Atlantic Slave Trade. He is also the writer of 'Amazing Grace'. Those lyrics right from that man's heart. Powerful!
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Today, right now slavery still is acceptable in certain African and Eastern cultures. It is happening right NOW! But not enough people care enough to talk about it, let alone fight it. So it goes on and on and on......
God Bless You Peace be upon you Shirley Temple Black
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I hated those curls. I was one of those kids whose mother insisted have those curls. I have pictures of me in my crib with curlers in my hair.
That's cute. My mother always had me in pigtails in the 70s.
Only Shirley could carry those curls off.
lolololol - my mother made me sleep on steel rollers. And I actually slept! Go know.
lil tiny girl her voice was so cute
we can used this sweet child now bc of the sickness now
Not just now.
Loved her so much & will probably, no... very likely, watch this again and again.
Thanks for putting this up for us to enjoy
She looked like she loved what she was doing acting singing dancing. Those dimples I've never seen on another as if she was pinched by an angel! Adorable sweet smart talented and confident. What a great mom she had. I'm glad she was protected like a valuable gem and treated like a princess. Yes, she worked but, she seemed to really enjoy it.
She was exploited sexually as a child in adult situations and outfits, inappropriate contact with all of the males in every movie she was in and she wasn't older than 3-4 when it all started... And you think she loved and enjoyed it? It was disgusting and my heart breaks for her being exposed this way. She didn't know any better it any different 😢
@@jeniferm123 She grew up in a completely different time period. In an era where many were starving. She did enjoy bring in Hollywood and plowed though certain things. She laughed when a man showed her his private parts at 12 embarrassing the man into shame. She had a personality that could handle those things luckily. Sure, not ideal in any case but certainly we cannot put our modern ideals onto her and try to say her life would have been better otherwise.
@@jeniferm123 She did enjoy acting for the most part. The Baby Burlesks were very disturbing, granted. But her mainstream films were another matter. Just because adult males showed her affection and she showed affection to them on-screen does NOT mean that anything inappropriate was going on. Her mother was there, off-camera, and the crew was all around.
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@@Muirmaiden You are so wrong .
there is no mention to the Little colonel ,movie where Shirley dances with bill robinson. that was great who has done this documental ? the ku klux klan?
yes julia, i watched bio of bill robinson there speak a lot of the Little colonel and the relationship betwen Shirley and bil but maybe was more important for bill tan for shirley
@@cesarchincaro4486 No, if you read her autobiography Child Star you find out how important Bill Robinson was to her. She loved him. She wanted him to come visit her in her home and go visit him at his home. She did not understand why he said no to it. I can't recall if he ever did visit her home, but he would not allow her to his house because of the times. She had a near death experience while in the hospital, and she saw his spirit come into the room. He was inviting her to join him in the afterlife. People believe he molested her, but there is no mention of it in her book. Plus, it would be suicide in those days for a black man to try that with a white female.
@@DesertMouse298 yes you have reason now i know more about the relationship betwen shirley and bill they loved each other alonglife. i exagerated i expected watch them dance but this bio is excellent
she was really blessed
So ridiculous no mention of her work with Mr. Bojangles. Hollywood is something else. Not a compliment.
Kids acting like adults... dressed like adults.. its gross.
The Studio did not buy Shirley the car, Bill Bojangles gave it to her as a Birthday gift. That actress in this video knows this as at the time it was a huge scandal to everyone but Shirley, her Mom and Mr Bojangles.
Shirley Temple Black you sure had a great life in the movies.
Maybe you should read about the abuse she went through making these movies. She went through hell and back. Imagine a little girl making these movies today and how they sexually exploited her. I love Shirley's movies but when I watched her talk about what she went through I couldn't watch them with the same energy anymore. People are just horrible.
@@yolandawilson9852 Correct.... why does everyone think she had such a wonderful time.
One other kid was Ronny Howard, he was a great child actor. Right up there with Shirley but on TV
Ron Howard never had the sort of popularity Shirley had as a child.
GypsyFairy85 Yes because Shirley was in movies in the 30s before television and Ronny wasn’t on tv until 1960. Shirley was a great actress but her audience had no choice no TV.
She was one of a kind, No one has come even close to her As my dear old dad would say "When they made Shirley they through the pattern away
Alot of the movies she did were remakes of Mary Pickford's , like Miss Annie Rooney , the Little Princess , others .
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I can only pray that this, then, little girl got through Hollywood without being picked apart by all the predators & pedophiles. It had them then & it certainly has them now.
No she was abused, poor kid.
@@irenemorley75 Let's face it, Hollywood exploited her natural beauty and sweetness. And so did everyone else in the world. She was beloved and used, to make people feel better about themselves.
Alice Faye has always reminded me of Melissa Joan Hart
I did'nt realize she was so big! That's a lot to deal with for a little girl. She grew up uneffected though.
loved that lady that lady maybe its not my time now how humble n sweet
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Shirley Temple is the greatest actor of all time.
Child star nowadays fell of real bad. They turned to drug addicts and alcoholics. Shirley maintain her clean image throughout adulthood.
Looks like Shirley is wearing her bathing suite backwards @43:20
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What a wonderful video about Shirley Temple. She had an extraordinary life. We can enjoy her movies today and she will forever remain with us. RIP
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She was a genius.
It takes me back to
See the life achievements of Shirley Temple! I’m thankful for the memories!
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Why were Shirley's children not actors?
Probably because Shirley didn't want her kids to be exploited the way she was. Never got to have a real childhood.
If you knew what happened to Shirley.... you wouldn't be asking a silly question.
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$1000 per week and another $250 for her mother when families were starving during the Depression. Just shows how much she was worth. That would be over $115,000 per week now.
No, it wouldn't be even close to that...
u want to be a lil girl lol
Watch her films all my life practically
Nineteen sixty's Shirley McLane stage name.
Amazing how well adjusted she was!
Awww she is os cute
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Just white stuff..
Such a disgusting comment.