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21 unusual facts about Shirley Temple


Aeroplane Jelly

Paykel's mother did not renew her contract because, according to Paykel, "Shirley Temple was all the rage and my mother was terrified I might become a public figure like her".

All About a Feeling

Greg Adams of Allmusic called the album's ninth track "Rotten Little Song" to evoke the vocal performance of Shirley Temple because of its "la la" chorus". Adams reviewed All About a Feeling and gave it three out of five stars, stating, "Fargo's brand of upbeat and accessible country is the sort of music that brought the genre such tremendous mainstream success from the '70s onward.

Carmen Montejo

While still in Cuba she was nicknamed "Muñeca" Sánchez in theatre and because of her golden curls as the Cuban Shirley Temple.

Cleopatra Stratan

Everybody was stunned so they ended up recording the song with Cleopatra performing the lead vocals, and suggested that as she is younger than Shirley Temple, she should be included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest talent ever to perform on stage and record her own album named that Cleopatra Stratan.

Cuteness

It can be a factor in live action productions such as movies starring Shirley Temple, the Honey, I Shrunk The Kids trilogy, the Three Men and a Baby duology, and elements of One Good Cop, as well the successful documentary film March of the Penguins.

Gerald Marks

He also wrote the songs "That's What I Want for Christmas" for the film Stowaway starring Shirley Temple, and "Is It True What They Say About Dixie" recorded by Al Jolson and Rudy Vallee.

Graeme Strachan

Born in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, he was an avid surfer, and his nickname "Shirley" was given to him by his surfer friends because of his long, sunbleached and very curly hair, referring to Shirley Temple.

Hazel Ascot

Ascot was one of two British child stars at the time who were billed as the British Shirley Temple.

James Shepherd Freeman

As a teenager he was linked romantically to actress Shirley Temple.

Morocco Temple

Shirley Temple was one of numerous celebrities who appeared at the Morocco Temple.

Muriel Denison

The first book was the inspiration for the Shirley Temple movie of the same name, though the two stories are very different.

Oriana Cinema

The first film shown at the cinema was Walt Disney Productions', Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Love on a Budget, starring Shirley Temple.

Paul Francis Webster

In 1935 Twentieth Century Fox signed him to a contract to write lyrics for Shirley Temple's films, but shortly afterward he went back to freelance writing.

R. C. Gorman

While tending sheep in Canyon de Chelly with his aunts, he used to draw on the rocks, sand, and mud, and made sculptures with the clay, with his earliest subjects including Mickey Mouse and Shirley Temple.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Shirley Temple played Rebecca in the more freely interpreted adaptation of 1938.

The story was adapted for the theatrical stage, and was filmed three times, once with Shirley Temple in the title role.

Shaike Ophir

During the late 1950s and early 1960s Ophir occasionally guest-starred in American TV shows such as Shirley Temple's Storybook and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Sidney Kibrick

He made his screen debut in "Kid's Last Fight" a film, the Baby Burlesks series, appearing alongside Shirley Temple.

Telefoni Bianchi

For example, there would be expensive Art Deco sets featuring white telephones (status symbol of bourgeois wealth and generally unavailable to the movie-going public), and children would have Shirley Temple curls.

Temple the Balloonist

One of the final works credited to Tatsunoko Production co-founder Tatsuo Yoshida, who died in September 1977 shortly before the TV series premiered, it is widely believed that the curly-haired heroine of this series was named after Shirley Temple (indeed, Temple was renamed to Shirley in the French dub).

Watson family

The Watson children worked with some of the big stars in those days, including James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Fred Astaire, Shirley Temple, Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda.


Boulder Dam Hotel

The hotel has seen a number of celebrity visitors, including Boris Karloff, Shirley Temple and then-Crown Prince Olav and Princess Martha of Norway.

Christian C. Sanderson Museum

The museum also houses the pocket book Jennie Wade was carrying when she was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, and a number of autographs including those of Sitting Bull, Shirley Temple, Helen Keller and Basil Rathbone.

Colleen Later

There she met Bud Later from Beverly Hills, California who had been an actor in many movies, mainly as a double or extra, working with many famous actors like Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, and Shirley Temple.

Family Theater

In its ten-year run, well-known actors and actresses, including James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Irene Dunne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, Barbara Whiting Smith, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, Kate Smith, William Shatner and Chuck Connors, appeared as announcers, narrators or stars.

Grant Cooper

Cooper has also represented several Hollywood actors, including Lynne Baggett for homicide, Joan Bennett, and Shirley Temple in her divorce from John Agar.

Helen Parrish

Their first film together, Mad About Music (1938), worked so well that they soon formed a sort of Shirley Temple/Jane Withers team in a couple of other movie confections for Universal.

June Lang

She soon graduated to leading roles, most notably in Bonnie Scotland (with Laurel and Hardy, 1935), in The Road to Glory (with Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore—written in part by William Faulkner—1936), and in Wee Willie Winkie (directed by John Ford, with Shirley Temple, Cesar Romero, and Victor McLaglen, 1937).

Karl Tunberg

His first feature film was You Can't Have Everything (1937), after which he provided scripts for several comedies and musicals featuring such stars as Betty Grable, Sonja Henie, Deanna Durbin, Dorothy Lamour and Shirley Temple.

Mitchell Leisen

When his film career ended, Leisen directed episodes of The Twilight Zone, Thriller, Shirley Temple's Storybook and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E..

Polly Wolly Doodle

Popular early 20th century child actor Shirley Temple also sang "Polly Wolly Doodle" in the 1935 film, The Littlest Rebel.

Sol M. Wurtzel

Wurtzel eventually became involved in production and between 1932 and 1949 he produced more than one hundred and fifty-nine films including a large number of both the Charlie Chan and Mr Moto series as well as other successes such as Bright Eyes in 1934, starring Shirley Temple and featuring her enduring trademark song: "On The Good Ship Lollipop".

Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers

She and her best friend Jerry are in middle school and constantly pretend they are popular television characters including Shirley Temple and Donny Osmond & Marie Osmond.

William A. Seiter

Among the many stars directed by Seiter during his long career were Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan, Jack Haley, Deanna Durbin, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Fred MacMurray, Lucille Ball, Rita Hayworth and the Marx Brothers.