Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple Black (born Shirley Jane Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.
Temple began her film career at the age of three in 1931. Two years later, she achieved international fame in Bright Eyes, a feature film produced especially for her talents. She received a special Juvenile Academy Award in February 1935 for her outstanding contribution as a juvenile performer in motion pictures during 1934. Film hits such as Curly Top and Heidi followed year after year during the mid- to late 1930s. Temple capitalized on licensed merchandise that featured her wholesome image; the merchandise included dolls, dishes, and clothing. Her box-office popularity waned as she reached adolescence. She appeared in 29 films from the ages of 3 to 10, but in only 14 films from the ages of 14 to 21. Temple retired from film in 1950 at the age of 22.
In 1958, Temple returned to show business with a two-season television anthology series of fairy tale adaptations. She made guest appearances on television shows in the early 1960s and filmed a sitcom pilot that was never released. She sat on the boards of corporations and organizations, including the Walt Disney Company, Del Monte Foods, and the National Wildlife Federation.
She began her diplomatic career in 1969, when she was appointed to represent the United States at a session of the United Nations General Assembly, where she worked at the U.S. Mission under Ambassador Charles W. Yost. In 1988, she published her autobiography, Child Star.
Temple was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Kennedy Center Honors and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. She is 18th on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female American screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 11.449 |
Birthday | 1928-04-23 |
Place of Birth | Santa Monica, California, USA |
Also Known As | Shirley Jane Temple, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple-Black, |
1933
Glad Rags to Riches
5.6/5
A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.
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Glad Rags to Riches
1944
I'll Be Seeing You
6.9/32
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncl...
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I'll Be Seeing You
1934
Baby Take a Bow
5.5/16
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convi...
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Baby Take a Bow
1936
Dimples
6.5/16
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady...
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Dimples
1939
The Little Princess
6.704/103
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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The Little Princess
1947
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
6.953/118
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sist...
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1936
Stowaway
6.7/23
Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for...
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Stowaway
1937
Heidi
6.9/96
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Krame...
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Heidi
1935
The Little Colonel
6.4/30
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to nev...
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The Little Colonel
1944
Since You Went Away
6.4/44
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make en...
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Since You Went Away
1935
Curly Top
6.4/37
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. J...
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Curly Top
1934
Bright Eyes
6.6/24
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for c...
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Bright Eyes
1940
The Blue Bird
5.769/39
An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of ha...
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The Blue Bird
1934
Little Miss Marker
6.4/20
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especia...
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Little Miss Marker
1938
Just Around the Corner
5.5/10
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
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Just Around the Corner
1936
Poor Little Rich Girl
6.6/16
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en...
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Poor Little Rich Girl
1948
Fort Apache
7.017/356
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant,...
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Fort Apache
1949
The Story of Seabiscuit
5.8/12
Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. Wo...
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The Story of Seabiscuit
1937
Wee Willie Winkie
6.5/22
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he c...
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Wee Willie Winkie
1935
Our Little Girl
4.3/3
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become at...
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Our Little Girl
1935
The Littlest Rebel
6.3/29
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and se...
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The Littlest Rebel
1938
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
6.7/16
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secr...
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1939
Susannah of the Mounties
6.3/15
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canad...
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Susannah of the Mounties
1938
Little Miss Broadway
6.6/12
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wa...
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Little Miss Broadway
1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
4.8/10
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...
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Stand Up and Cheer!
1934
Now and Forever
6.7/17
Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for a...
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Now and Forever
1936
Captain January
6.7/20
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding s...
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Captain January
1940
Young People
4.6/8
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the f...
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Young People
1933
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
4.4/7
A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
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Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
1932
The Pie-Covered Wagon
0/0
Shirley gets kidnapped by Indians, but by the end there is a big pie fight.
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The Pie-Covered Wagon
1932
Runt Page
5.1/5
A little girl falls asleep in her high chair as her parents and their friends discuss the film The Front Page. She dreams about reporters, a cop, and...
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Runt Page
1932
War Babies
2.9/9
A group of soldiers in a café watch a dancer as she entertains them, but later two of them become rivals over her.
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War Babies
1932
Red Haired Alibi
4.4/8
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
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Red Haired Alibi
1934
Pardon My Pups
5.4/5
Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, but his father has decided to buy him a dog instead...
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Pardon My Pups
1934
Now I'll Tell
4.8/4
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by whic...
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Now I'll Tell
1934
Managed Money
4.2/4
Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy.
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Managed Money
1933
Kid in Hollywood
5.5/1
Shirley is an aspiring actress is rejected by casting, but gets her chance to perform when the star doesn't feel like performing.
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Kid in Hollywood
1933
Polly Tix in Washington
2.8/4
Shirley acts as a rich "gold digger" trying to elect a cowboy politician to the office.
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Polly Tix in Washington
1942
Miss Annie Rooney
6.4/7
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her fam...
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Miss Annie Rooney
1947
That Hagen Girl
5.2/7
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her re...
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That Hagen Girl
1949
Adventure in Baltimore
4.9/7
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do...
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Adventure in Baltimore
1949
A Kiss for Corliss
4.7/3
After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in...
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A Kiss for Corliss
1945
Kiss and Tell
5.6/5
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly s...
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Kiss and Tell
1947
Honeymoon
6.4/5
A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
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Honeymoon
1933
To the Last Man
5.9/18
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Neva...
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To the Last Man
1934
As the Earth Turns
5.286/7
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
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As the Earth Turns
1933
Kid 'in' Africa
4/2
Shirley has gone to Africa to civilize the cannibals; something she is able to do with the assistance of Diperzan.
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Kid 'in' Africa
1934
Change of Heart
6.3/3
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
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Change of Heart
1933
Out All Night
6/1
A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
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Out All Night
1941
Kathleen
5/3
Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She drea...
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Kathleen
1949
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
6.7/6
A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
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Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
1933
What's to Do?
5/1
Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his riva...
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What's to Do?
1933
The Kid's Last Fight
5/1
Diaper Dampsey must defend his diaper-weight championship, but someone has kidnapped his girlfriend to make him lose!
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The Kid's Last Fight
1933
Merrily Yours
5.7/3
Sonny falls for the pretty new girl next door and decides to take her to a part. First, however, he has to get his sister Mary Lou to go to sleep, whi...
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Merrily Yours
1934
The Hollywood Gad-About
4/1
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
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The Hollywood Gad-About
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
6.5/3
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
2004
Judy Garland: By Myself
7.5/2
As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life pre...
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Judy Garland: By Myself
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1944
Take It or Leave It
4/1
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
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Take It or Leave It
1996
Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
0/0
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Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
1965
The Love Goddesses
6.3/22
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry change...
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The Love Goddesses
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
6/5
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
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Frank Capra's American Dream
1987
Hollywood Uncensored
5.5/8
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for movies from the early 1920s onwards.
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Hollywood Uncensored
1985
That's Dancing!
7/18
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30...
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That's Dancing!
1934
Carolina
0/0
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joa...
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Carolina
1982
Hollywood’s Children
0/0
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
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Hollywood’s Children
1961
Pippi Longstocking
0/0
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Pippi Longstocking
1937
Ali Baba Goes to Town
6.1/13
While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--...
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
2020
Showbiz Kids
6.933/45
A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a chil...
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Showbiz Kids
1994
The Our Gang Story
0/0
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 epi...
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The Our Gang Story
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
7.2/102
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovat...
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
10/1
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
1976
The Biggest Little Star of the 30's
0/0
A compilation of Shirley Temple newsreel appearances from the 1930's.
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The Biggest Little Star of the 30's
1963
The Sound of Laughter
2/1
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
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The Sound of Laughter
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1970
Hollywood Blue
0/0
A collection of vintage erotica from Hollywood movies is intercut with street interviews and newsreel footage.
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Hollywood Blue
2022
Dream Girl: The making of Marilyn Monroe
9/2
How did Marilyn Monroe become one of the greatest sex symbols of all time? What drove a prudish little Californian girl, who was not especially pretty...
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Dream Girl: The making of Marilyn Monroe
Film Stars Help Greece
0/0
Hollywood holds a star-studded event, all proceeds went to Greece.
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Film Stars Help Greece
1981
Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
0/0
Various entertainers and artists look at how Walt Disney influenced these areas through his work in a variety of fields.
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Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
1999
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends
6/1
The spectacular CBS special! Shirley Temple Black hosts the festivities as 50 of today's top stars count down the 50 greatest screen legends of all ti...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends
1993
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
0/0
There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her...
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Shirley Temple’s Storybook: Madeline
0/0
Shirley presents her favorite stories from Ludwig Bemelmans’ classic that recounts the unforgettable adventures of an invincible nine-year old girl.
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Shirley Temple’s Storybook: The Little Mermaid
0/0
A beautiful mermaid rescues and falls in love with a shipwrecked prince but will have to leave her cherished sea kingdom behind to be with him.
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Shirley Temple’s Storybook: The Little Mermaid
1960
Shirley Temple’s Storybook: Babes in Toyland
0/0
A pair of young siblings escape their wicked uncle’s home and must traverse dark forests and a spooky village to get to a magical Christmas toy land.
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Shirley Temple’s Storybook: Babes in Toyland
1960
Shirley Temple’s Storybook: Land of Oz
0/0
When General Nikidik sets his sights on conquering oz, he asks Mombi the Witch to turn Ozma into a statue, but she has her own plans for the princess.
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Shirley Temple’s Storybook: Land of Oz
1960
Shirley Temple’s Storybook: Winnie the Pooh
0/0
The classic characters in marionette form present “Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree,” “Eeyore Loses a Tail,” “Tigger,” and more beloved stories.
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Shirley Temple’s Storybook: Winnie the Pooh
1961
Shirley Temple’s Storybook: Pippi Longstocking
0/0
Join the irrepressible Pippi at the Villa Villekulla where she and her friends, Tommy and Annika, are free to escape all the rules of everyday life.
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