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Shirley Temple (1928–2014)

Autore di Child Star: An Autobiography

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Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica, California on April 23, 1928. In 1932, she appeared in Baby Burlesks, a series of one-reel shorts in which children played all the roles. She went on to appear in more than 40 movies including Little Miss Marker, Bright Eyes, Captain January, Wee Willie mostra altro Winkie, Susannah of the Mounties, Kiss and Tell, The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, and That Hagen Girl. She retired from the screen in 1950 at the age of 22. From 1958 to 1961 she was the host and an occasional performer on the television series Shirley Temple's Storybook, an anthology of fairy-tale adaptations. After marrying Charles Alden Black in 1950, she became a prominent Republican fund-raiser. She was appointed a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969. She was the United States ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976, was President Gerald R. Ford's chief of protocol in 1976 and 1977, and was President George H.?W. Bush's ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1989. She wrote an autobiography entitled Child Star in 1988. She died on February 10, 2014 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Shirley Temple

Child Star: An Autobiography (1988) — Autore — 432 copie
My Young Life (1945) 3 copie
remember shirley LP (1972) 2 copie
My life and times (1936) 1 copia
Honeymoon (2015) 1 copia

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The Little Princess [1939 film] (1939) — Actor — 220 copie
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Collaboratore — 118 copie
Heidi [1937 film] (1937) — Actor — 103 copie
Fort Apache [1948 film] (1948) — Actor — 88 copie
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer [1947 film] (1947) — Actor — 76 copie
Curly Top [1935 film] (1935) — Actor — 40 copie
Bright Eyes [1934 film] (1934) — Actor — 35 copie
Baby Take a Bow [1934 film] (1934) — Actor — 30 copie
Shirley Temple Festival: Four Fun-Filled Comedies (1987) — Actor; Actor — 28 copie
The Little Colonel [1935 film] (1935) — Actor — 28 copie
The Blue Bird [1940 film] (2007) — Actor — 27 copie
The Littlest Rebel [1935 film] (1935) — Actor — 24 copie
Dimples [1936 film] (1936) — Actor — 23 copie
Stowaway [1936 film] (1936) — Actor — 19 copie
Wee Willie Winkie [1937 film] (1937) — Actor — 18 copie
Shirley Temple: Little Darling Collection (2009) — Actor — 18 copie
50 Movie Pack: Family Classics (2005) — Actor — 17 copie
La Collection Cary Grant [Édition Limitée] (2004) — Actor — 16 copie
Shirley Temple & Friends (2008) — Actor — 16 copie
Susannah of the Mounties [1939 film] — Actor — 16 copie
That's Dancing! [1985 film] (1985) — Actor — 15 copie
20 Movies: Family Pack — Actor — 14 copie
The Story of Seabiscuit [1949 film] (1949) — Actor — 13 copie
I'll Be Seeing You [1944 film] (1944) — Actor. — 13 copie
Poor Little Rich Girl [1936 film] (1936) — Actor — 12 copie
The Shirley Temple Collection: The Early Years (1998) — Actor — 10 copie
Shirley Temple Classics (2000) 8 copie
50 Movies: Timeless Family Classics (2012) — Actor — 8 copie
Now and Forever [1934 film] (1934) — Actor — 7 copie
Little Miss Marker [1934 film] (1934) — Actor — 7 copie
Young People [1940 film] (1940) — Actor — 7 copie
Shirley Temple Shorts — Cast — 6 copie
Stand Up and Cheer! [1934 film] (1934) — Actor — 6 copie
Our Little Girl [1935 film] — Actor — 3 copie
To the Last Man [1933 film] (1933) — Actor — 3 copie
Shirley Temple In Walt Disney's Dumbo (1960) — Narratore — 2 copie
A Kiss for Corliss [1949 film] — Actor — 2 copie
Shirley Temple - Classic Pack — Actor — 2 copie
Shirley Temple In Walt Disney's Bambi (1968) — Narratore — 2 copie
Adventure in Baltimore [1949 film] (2015) — Actor — 1 copia

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Despite her many associations, Ms Temple does not fall into the trap of a story told in the guess who I know and you don’t format. Too classy for that. Yet, a life so interesting, I argue, someone else should have written this book. It would have been more revealing and honest. She is both protected and self protective. The constant risks to her person suggest why.

It is in our nature to look at life’s tragedies and brighten them to the point of saying how one wasn’t affected. I feel, though, a neutral author wouldn’t have glossed over her rape as an adult actor in a train car on the way to a shoot. She excuses her father for bad fortunes and her mother for bad scripts. She hints at color blindness but I doubt she made friends among the brown and gay actors of the times. She led a culturally sheltered life, at times acknowledging how she was overprotected, so maybe that is in part the cause. But kudos to her for her foreign service, at best a thankless for role, at worst an inconsequential one.

Between the lines, beneath the surface lies an injured soul who made the best of the happiness available to her. And not too late, a la Brittany Spears, staking her claim on her own fortune, a happy marriage, a stable household. That is as much a life lesson as stardom. A career mother/woman ahead of her time.

As an aside, a trained writer would have avoided her penchant for SAT words. They stick out like sore thumbs amidst her text, add little to the store other than to suggest she was a tad bit self conscious about her educational attainment. A life well loved offers as much merit as a life book-spent. A good editor would have won that argument.

I enjoyed learning more about life behind the scenes of this fantastically experienced talented actor. She is an American treasure, after all, and time has been kind to her accomplishments. I can no more imagine a child’s life without Shirley Temple Black’s films as I can without the books a Beatrix Potter. She validated the lives, experiences, and emotions of small children for us all, sensitizing us to the relevance of kindness in childhood.
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NeelieOB | 5 altre recensioni | Jan 20, 2024 |
Shirley Temple's Storybook
by Shirley Temple (Author), Josette Frank (Editor)

Beauty and the Beast,
The Nightingale,
The Little Lame Prince,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Dick Whittington and his Cat,
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,
Rapunzel,
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,
The Magic Fishbone,
The Land of Green Ginger,
The Emperor's New Clothes,
The Valiant Little Tailor,
The Wild Swans,
Rip Van Winkle,
Rumpelstiltskin.
 
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Pebblesgmc | 1 altra recensione | May 27, 2021 |
I wanted and expected to give this five stars, but it only just made it to four. Reasons for this include too much time devoted to Shirley’s teenage years and beyond; too much focus on financial matters; too many political asides.

Shirley’s 1930s’ films are like anti-depressants to me. I always feel better whilst watching one. Shirley was a remarkable little actress, and it’s her life during the 1930s that interested me most. I would’ve liked more anecdotes relating to her films from this period.

I know numerous people she worked with were dead by the time “Child Star” was written, but it would’ve enhanced the narrative if Shirley could’ve interviewed some people who knew her as a girl to give more insights regarding what went on during the films and backstage. For example, June Lang – a stunning actress who co-starred with Shirley in two films – lived until 2005, so it’s a shame Shirley didn’t approach her to contribute some memories.

Also, with a title like “Child Star”, and with Shirley's fame being it its peak in the mid-to-late 1930s, I hoped the majority of the book would focus on these years, followed by only the most noteworthy events from the 1940s, and perhaps concluding with a summary of starting her own family in the ’50s. Instead, we only get about half the book focusing on her early life, followed by a lot of material from 1940 through to the mid-1950s.

I appreciate that she wanted to write about her second husband, and that it seemed fitting to end with the birth of her final child, but this isn’t the life of the child star that her fans want to read about. Touching on her post-acting career is fine, but to sacrifice material from the ’30s to leave space for what follows is – for an early Shirley fan – disappointing.

On the plus side, much of the info on the 1930s' period is mostly good, and of passages from the early ’40s, Shirley enrolling at an all-girls’ school makes an engaging read. I expected the other girls to treat her like a little princess, but they all but shunned her. It's amazing and sad that they behaved that way towards her. This section almost reads like one of her films.

Overall, I found the book entertaining in parts, but on the whole, not as good as hoped for. The material from around 1945 onwards dilutes what should’ve been a classic autobiography. Most importantly, however, I remain an early Shirley fan, and respect the grown-up Shirley. Her loss in 2014 saw the passing of a screen legend.
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PhilSyphe | 5 altre recensioni | Jun 10, 2020 |
It was really interesting to read about Shirley Temple Black's younger life. I would love to know more about her life since the birth of her last 2 children and her work in politics.
 
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LVStrongPuff | 5 altre recensioni | Nov 29, 2018 |

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