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View Shirley Temple as Sara and Arthur Treacher as Bertie singing and dancing in a scene from the film “The Little Princess,” 1939
Adolphe Menjou and Shirley Temple in a scene from Little Miss Marker, with Temple sitting on a scale and smiling as Menjou looks at her; a nurse stands in the background. Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple, and Carole Lombard sit together on a patterned sofa in a scene from the 1934 film Now and Forever, directed by Henry Hathaway. Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple tap dancing together on a porch, with a horse and stable tack visible in the background, in a scene from The Little Colonel (1935). Poster for the 1935 film The Little Colonel shows illustrated portraits of Lionel Barrymore with white hair and mustache, and Shirley Temple in a yellow coat and black hat, saluting. Shirley Temple stands in pajamas holding dolls in a room filled with toys, including a toy dog on a table and a toy train on the floor, in a scene from Stowaway (1936). Shirley Temple stands smiling with her hand raised beside Gloria Stuart, who is seated at a piano, in a scene from the 1938 film Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
See Shirley Temple in a scene from the film “The Little Princess,” 1939
Cesar Romero, wearing a turban and robe, stands holding a parrot while Shirley Temple, in a dark shawl, looks up at him in an attic room in The Little Princess (1939).
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Anne Edwards, Shirley Temple: American Princess (1988).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: AllMusic - Shirley Temple. Oct 31, 2026
Anniversary information added. Apr 19, 2026
Anniversary information added. Feb 06, 2026
Add new Web site: California Museum - Shirley Temple Black. Sep 26, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Shirley Temple child star (PDF). Apr 21, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 18, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - 'Being a starlet was difficult': How Shirley Temple saved a Hollywood studio from bankruptcy. Dec 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Kansas State University - Landon Lecture Series - Shirley Temple Black. Sep 20, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 11, 2024
Add new Web site: CNN Entertainment - Appreciation: Shirley Temple, the model child star. Nov 06, 2023
Added the movie The Little Princess and noted that she received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1998. Jan 24, 2020
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Shirley Temple Black, Hollywood�s Biggest Little Star, Dies at 85. Oct 11, 2017
Article revised and updated. Jan 20, 2017
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Shirley Temple. Feb 09, 2015
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Shirley Temple. May 09, 2014
Add new Web site: The Kennedy Center - Shirley Temple Black. May 09, 2014
Add new Web site: National Women's History Museum - Biography of Shirley Temple. May 09, 2014
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Biography of Shirley Temple. May 09, 2014
Add new Web site: Official Site of Shirley Temple. May 09, 2014
Media added. Feb 18, 2014
Updated for her death. Feb 11, 2014
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Biography of Shirley Temple. Apr 05, 2013
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Shirley Temple. Apr 05, 2013
Article revised and updated. Aug 26, 2008
Media added. Dec 21, 2006
Added new Web site: Reel Classics - Shirley Temple. May 14, 2006
Article revised. Feb 16, 2000
Article added to new online database. Nov 10, 1999
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