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How to pronounce shirley temple black in English?

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imagine a time
when for more than five years one small
girl
could grip the attention of an entire
movie-going world
could be adored by the high and the
mighty as well as ordinary folk
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there has never been anyone quite like
this little girl
she was the biggest child star of all
time
her name was shirley temple
[Music]
for four years in a row from 1935 to
1938
shirley temple was the number one box
office star
in hollywood she was even more popular
than clark gable
robert taylor and gary cooper
because of her films her studio fox was
saved from bankruptcy
she had this natural charm and this
great charisma that came out
uh on the screen
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[Applause]
lost a week ago nice
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shirley jane temple was born on april 23
1928 in santa monica california
her mother gertrude temple who already
had two sons
yearned for a daughter and she set about
making her babies special
her father george temple worked in the
santa monica bank
and he indulged his wife's every dream
for shirley
shirley's early training included music
and art appreciation
and watching her mother dance to a
tambourine to instill a sense of rhythm
in her
shirley was barely three when gertrude
decided she was
ready for the next step at that time
the meglin dance studio was known to
every ambitious parent
as an entryway to show business
in 1932 when shirley was three directors
from
educational pictures visited meglin
dance studio
in search of ten boys and two girls
for a series of one real comedies
shirley was selected and she was on her
way to stardom
your dance was terrible i cannot go on
i'm so tired of it all please
let me go i'll hold you here
until you decide to marry me
no no a thousand times low you
double the shorts were called
baby burlesques which is just what they
were
children little more than toddlers in
diapers and exaggerated safety pins
enacted scenes drawn from adult
melodrama
i cannot talk here he is watching
come on with me
even then shirley temple stood out
i played the lead in a series of high
school comedies for educational pictures
called the frolics of youth
happy birthday son
she didn't know how to read yet so every
night after work
i guess while her mother was giving her
bath she would read her the scenes
that were going to be shot the following
day so as a result
when shirley showed up on the set the
next morning she knew
everybody's lines now if any one of us
made a mistake in all sweetness nothing
precocious
she would say oh no you're supposed to
say
and then she'd tell us what we were
supposed to say and you know
she was never wrong
[Applause]
stop that mary lou
shirley really enjoyed uh being a little
actress
mary lou stop that i never did see her
pamper and cry on the set like a lot of
other little kids did
a year later in 1933 shirley was ready
for her first feature film
to the last man
the first time i could ever remember her
i remember her with her mother
and uh i was carrying shirley's suitcase
and my dad was carrying mrs temple
suitcase
and we were going to our separate little
cabins there on location for the making
of the movie uh
to the last man which was starring
randolph scott
and we played a brother and a sister in
in the movie
you got to give me a kiss face now these
two songs
we played together all the time after on
the on location there we just ran all
over the the place they had all these
animals and horses and
little puppies that was a big deal in
the picture they had these cute little
puppies
and she was actually just like kind of a
little sister to me at the time
during 1933 shirley had bit parts in
seven feature films one of these was now
i'll tell
starring spencer tracy also in the cast
was
alice fay because i was in awe of
spencer tracy i i wasn't
hardly thinking about anybody else i
mean spencer tracy was just
killing me i imagined me in a picture
with spencer tracy
and we hadn't heard too much about
shirley temple and she sort of
came out of the blue
i was sitting with my mom in the office
and about that time the door opened
and without a doubt through that door
walked the most adorable
the most beautiful the most precious
little girl i'd ever seen in my whole
life and i said
well even though my heart sank to my
toes i said well lord
i guess it's just not my turn yet
because i know she's it
she's just what that script calls for
because she is really precious
this film stand up and cheer introduced
five-year-old shirley temple to the
world
her part was small but show business
would never be the same again
audiences and reviewers alike were
bowled over
by this unheralded little girl who could
dance and
act up a storm with such disarming ease
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in the 30s the great depression gripped
the country
many americans were suffering out of
work and down on their luck
shirley could make people believe if
only for 90 minutes
that there were no problems in the world
you forgot you know that there were men
selling apples on the street coming to
the back door and asking for
food and work or work and food or or
anything
and being at the shirley temple film was
complete getaway
look at the funny side and have your
fun stay by your honey
it was 1934. fox film corporation
signed the five-year-old to a year's
contract
at 150 a week
then quickly lent her out to paramount
pictures
at a sizable profit the picture was
little miss marker
it was to star adolf monjou who did not
like to work with children
i paid the lord my soul to take and make
me a good little girl
you don't want to be a little girl no no
dear make you a good little girl make
me a good little girl is that all
that's the works but when do i ask for
what i want
you better do it right now while your
prayer's still hot
please god bless your story a new
student close
by the end of filming manju had become
another
shirley temple devotee say no thank you
one for well you used to say thank you
and no thank you
i used to be a
now where did you get that ain't telling
and i don't want no mush little miss
marker was
an instant hit in three weeks it took in
half its original cost
at just one new york city theater
paramount offered fox
50 000 for shirley's contract
the offer was refused
soon shirley was acting opposite
hollywood's biggest stars
such as gary cooper in the 1934
now and
i'm forever daddy what do you mean tony
told me
told you what penny that she stole it
please daddy forgive me
please well of course of course
lean down
shirley's acting ability was more
being surely um
in a pretend situation than it was
actually
acting the studios they had a goal mind
in her
and they didn't want her to to get uh
affected
that's probably the best word i could
use is they wanted to keep her isolated
she couldn't she couldn't go out she
could she had a bowling alley i know
that they built for in her home
and a little soda fountain there shirley
was around adults
mainly i don't think that she had a
great many children to play with
there was certainly never any children
that we played with on the set
mrs temple just adored shirley you could
see the love there
shirley loved what she was doing she
loved to
dance she she she she loved
everything and you could see it shirley
temple had
ushered in the era of the child star
in studio after studio the search was on
for new child stars
including mickey rooney jackie cooper
and deanna durbin bright wonderful child
actors
who were signed up and rushed into
picture after picture
but in the early 30s none would be more
luminous
than shirley temple
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the studio had dropped a year from
shirley's age hoping to
magically prolong her childhood and
their bonanza
happy landing on the chocolate farm
see the sugar bowls do the tootsie roll
with the big bad
double spoon cake
[Music]
it's a night trip into bed
[Music]
she appeared in eight films in just one
year
1934 but her salary remained
150 a week product endorsements with
shirley's name and picture brought the
studio
large sums every year but shirley
received no part of it
finally at her mother gertrude's
insistence
shirley's salary was raised to one
thousand dollars a week
for her role as tutor and advisor
gertrude received
250 shirley's parents would now control
her product endorsements
in 1935 shirley played opposite lionel
barrymore
in the dramatic comedy the little
colonel
who are you they call me the little
colonel
what under the sun do they call you that
for
because i'm so much like you like me
how are you like me because i've got
such a temper
i stamp my foot when i get mad i get all
red in the face
i don't know who your mother is but
whoever she is she ought to teach you
better
don't you dare say anything about my
mother
in 1935 shirley temple received a
special award from the academy of motion
picture arts and sciences
for what was called her monumental
achievement
thank you very much mr cobb
mommy can i go home now that same year
fox merged with century studio and 20th
century fox came into being daryl f
zaneck became the new studio head an
essential job
was to maintain the meteoric rise of one
of the new company's
major assets shirley temple shirley's
films continued to work their magic at
the box office
as shirley worked hers on the screen
this is station l o v
e i'm cupid's
assistant please listen to me
i remember when zane told my agent that
i was going to do
um poor little rich girl i said oh no
um i i don't want to be with a child i'm
a dramatic actress
but i was told that she was tremendous
box office
so i did it the part wasn't any good but
it was fun being with shirley
and it was sometimes very embarrassing i
couldn't remember a line and shirley was
standing there with the sweet face
you know looking at you and you know
i love you you're an idiot but i love
you the name of this song named
[Music]
none of us could get over this this
little thing that that
could remember 10 pages of dialogue and
it's
just nothing and here we are struggling
along you know and
she could dance up a storm with bill
robinson she could
sing with jimmy dunn she could do
anything she was just
just unbelievable
so
everybody that came to california came
to hollywood and visited the studios
no matter who they were they all wanted
to meet shirley temple
the temples were determined to give
shirley a private life
but the studio was just as determined to
feed the public's hunger
for every bit of news about shirley how
gertrude temple maintained her famous
daughter's curls
where shirley went on vacation and what
she did there
waikiki beach a new lifeguard
ready in case any 300 pounder should get
into trouble in the surf
in 1936 shirley completed four films
including stowaway where she played
ching ching
opposite robert young and alice fay
oh about the poor little thing we
frightened her she's frightened us
what's your name chinese or american
what in american it's barbra stewart
but in chinese it's thinking we made
some pretty nice pictures and
we were always trying to make people
happy and and have a nice storyline so
uh that's that that's that was one of
the reasons i think she appealed to
the public
in 1937 for the third straight year
shirley temple was at the top
in box office popularity
at nine years of age she was still ahead
of clark gable
robert taylor and bing crosby
in spite of some pessimistic forecasts
shirley's magic remained
shirley temple was a tremendous star
as big a star as you'd want she was a
delightful little girl
an extraordinary little girl
i worked with her then we willy winky
and the little princess
wee willy winky actually was a part of a
boy
but they made it into a girl for shirley
she would do anything that she was told
and we
really winky she had to run across a
road when they were having
sort of a stampede of horses and hindus
riding around and she ran right through
there didn't hesitate at all
she had a lot of guts that little girl
in 1938 mgm's louis b
mayer thought he had the perfect project
for shirley temple
daryl f zanik refused to loan her out
and so the role went to a little-known
mgm contract player named judy garland
the picture was the wizard of oz but
xanax's competitive spirit had been
roused
and he made his own plans for shirley
the little princess was shirley's
highest budgeted film to date
and it was her first all-color picture
[Music]
in the little princes the one thing i do
remember
about shirley is that we we had a scene
where she was to dump ashes all over me
they had rehearsed us and rehearsed us
and rehearsed us
they also had a extra dress for me and
an extra dress for surely
they wanted to do it in one take you
don't
why you little liar you haven't even had
breakfast
pardon me but i really have and if
you'll excuse me for saying so
it doesn't like to call people liar how
dare you
talk back to me i doing that
my goodness oh
so
when darling said cut everybody was
screaming
and shirley just stood there and she
looked around and she ran over to the
director and she said
can we do that again mrs temple
urged zanik to find stories for shirley
that showed her as a
real girl with the problems of a real
girl
shirley was growing up but her roles
weren't changing
when at last the bluebird gave shirley
the chance to play a girl
who wasn't always perfect audiences were
not happy with the change
in 1939 when she was 11 years old
shirley presented walt disney with one
small oscar for each dwarf
in snow white and the seven dwarfs
shirley's popularity was still high
by 1940 the studio had starred her in 19
films
in six years her pictures had been among
its highest grossers
yet soon shirley's contract at 20th
century fox
would be coming to an end young people
her last film of 20th century fox yes i
was there
and i remember her being very sweet on
the set a little bit remote because she
went to school by herself the rest of
the kids went to school
uh in a school room and then shirley had
her dressing room
where her teacher worked with her but
she was very
she was very sweet with all the kids on
the set and i remember
i felt a certain respect and i think the
other kids did too
because she was very gentle and very
professional
and so it was it would be very hard not
to like her even though shirley was
fifth in the box office ratings
her contract with 20th century fox was
not renewed
but she was becoming more like other
girls her age
the reason shortly before she left fox
a happy shirley had enrolled in west
lake a private girls school in beverly
hills
it was her first school outside the
studio
shirley was now free to work at any
studio in 1942
she appeared in miss annie rooney she
was 14 years old
the following year shirley was signed by
david o
selznick to be one of a group of players
contracted to him
the first film surely appeared in for
selznick was since you went away
even though selznick saw shirley as the
ideal american teenager
he feared audiences were not ready to
accept their shirley in any role that
showed her in too sexy alight
but shirley refused to tone down her
youthful looks or clothes
motion picture critics apparently
approved they voted her as giving the
best juvenile performance of the year
america had declared war and surely
visited hospitals
army bases and war plants she appeared
on radio comedy shows and her own radio
series
junior miss more and more she was taking
charge of her own life
shirley had worked well with a goodly
number of handsome leading men
gary cooper james dunn
joel mcrae it was no surprise when
shirley started dating a handsome marine
sergeant what was a surprise was when 17
year old shirley temple
the actress no one believed would ever
grow up
decided to marry the sergeant his name
was
john agar the wedding drew thousands of
fans
and meant instant news and disbelief
around the world
the bachelor and the bobby soxer gave
shirley the chance to play a love
smitten teenager
vicky hello
[Music]
the same year 1947 shirley made a
picture
that hagen girl co-starring a man she
would one day work with
in other fields ronald reagan the film
gave shirley a chance to act
and not just be cute her fans were
disappointed with the results
fresh as a daisy thanks mark
but audiences still flocked to see a
picture with shirley temple
and now her new husband john agar
oh i'm sorry ma'am i thought it was i
beg your pardon
few knew that shirley's marriage to john
agar was falling apart
they had a daughter but divorced in 1949
she was just 21.
however shirley gained custody of her
child
and restored her name to shirley temple
it was a time of endings in april of
that year
selznick had put his whole company up
for sale
another ending a kiss for corliss proved
to be shirley temple's last feature film
when the picture was completed shirley
went on vacation to hawaii with her
daughter
and her parents there she met charles
black
a young businessman from san francisco
who seemed
unique he had never seen a film starring
america's little darling
within months shirley became mrs charles
black
from time to time she appeared on
television and had her own series
but eventually she turned away from her
career as an actress
i really feel that shirley temple by the
time she was
a grown woman had had it not that she
was
turning her back on the business i think
she had fulfilled herself
that's my best instinct i i think
shirley went on
to have another life by 1967
shirley temple now shirley temple black
was ready to begin a new career in
republican politics
when she entered the political arena her
fame became an
asset and gave her the chance to do what
she had always done well
relate to people
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surely temple doesn't hurt shirley
temple black shirley temple helps
shirley temple black because shirley
temple is remembered
with love with affection
i'm thought of as a friend which i am
shirley temple black's achievements have
been many
a long-standing and happy marriage
mother of three children
a grandmother the first woman to be u.s
chief of protocol special envoy to the
united nations
ambassador to ghana ambassador to
czechoslovakia
shirley temple died on february 10 2014
at the age of 85.
she would forever be america's little
darling
i've lived a good many years and i've
worked with a lot of people
but i've never ever worked with anybody
like her
shirley's gift to show business to the
united states
and to the movie going public was
a revelation of the creativity
and the sense of joy and fun of
childhood
that is in each of us i don't think any
child
ever did that better than shirley temple
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you

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shirley temple black::noun | Spocien Dictionary

shirley temple black

noun

popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

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