This Day in History Apr 23, 2008
Birthdays Actress-turned-diplomat Shirley Temple Black is 80. Actor David Birney is 69. (Montana Standard, MT)
Richard II, Henry IV, Part IHenry IV, Part II, Henry V, The ... Apr 18, 2008
In a mop of red Shirley Temple ringlets, Jonathan Slinger's Richard, prancing, pouting and delivering silky insults like Cecil Beaton at a Mayfair cocktail party, comes too close at times to mere vulgarity. But the aggressive frivolity, as well as making Richard more than usually responsible for his overthrow, provides a painful contrast to the grief not only for himself but for his country that turns this puppet into a king only when stripped of his crown. (Independent)
Young talent takes the stage Apr 15, 2008
Alyssa Skane and Samantha Sposito, first-graders from Ditson School strangely resembled Shirley Temple with their ringlets and ribbons as they sang On the Good Ship Lollypop. Megan Knight, a first-grader from Vining Elementary School and trophy winner in the multi-talented division, shared the stage with close friend Nadia El-Fakih in their rendition of The Return of the Pink Panther. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
If your kid is like mine Apr 13, 2008
A Shirley Temple at Jer-Ne or a dessert at Jacob Wirth beats a frappe at Friendly's every time. And then there's the Middle East in Central Square, where she can eat a lamb kabob while watching belly dancers. (Boston Globe)
Go & Do - Kidz, Ritz, owls and ... vowels? Apr 5, 2008
Go Kidz, Ritz, owls and. L/RAIN Saturday April 5, 2008. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Blast of the Past set for Friday Apr 2, 2008
Talk has already begun about Brenda Butler posing as the granddaughter of Shirley Temple, and Father Trever Murry and George Hopkins as the grandsons of Homer and Jethro. The room will have for purchase Italian Beef sandwiches with a pepper and chips, along with a variety of cakes for dessert. (West Frankfort Daily American, IL)
UNH Dance Company struts their stuff with puttin' on the Ritz Mar 28, 2008
"It's not a typical dance show," said Megan Godin, a UNH senior who plays Shirley Temple. This is part of the reason as to why Nardone chose this production. (The New Hampshire, NH)
Arts & Living Mar 28, 2008
By Courtney Coulombe. On Monday, students returned to UNH from Spring break and attempted to get back to the daily swing of things. (The New Hampshire, NH)
'Kiss of Death' star Richard Widmark passes away at 93 Mar 27, 2008
By 1949's Down to the Seain Ships, Widmark had taken his first step at playing decent human beings perhaps a more fitting step for a solid Midwesterner who had taught acting at Lake Forest College in Illinois and made his 1943 Broadway debut in the comedy Kiss and Tell (later a screen vehicle for the teenage Shirley Temple). Though two of Widmark's most enduring films 1950's Night and the City and 1953's Pickup on South Street also cast him in shady roles as, respectively, a wrestling promoter... (USA Today -- Life)
Could Abigail Breslin Or AnnaSophia Robb Be The Next Dakota Fanning? Mar 25, 2008
But every decade needs its own Shirley Temple, Tatum O'Neal or Drew Barrymore. With a "Help Wanted" sign hanging in Hollywood's window, two of the town's most promising young stars are currently handing in their audition tapes. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Talk of the Town: Yikes! Theres a tiger in my soup! Mar 7, 2008
Sung by Shirley Temple in the movie Curly Top, 1935. Seems little Shirley added an animal or two. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
80 Years Of Oscar Memories Feb 24, 2008
1939: Shirley Temple stands on a chair to present Walt Disney with an honorary award for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.". 1940: Hattie McDaniel breaks the color barrier. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Advertisements sell story of Laurel past and present Feb 8, 2008
der's Midway Restaurant, once located on Route 198 near the Baltimore/Washington Parkway, and the Laurel Theater, a Main Street movie theater that produced a good-sized poster for "Gone with the Wind" and smaller programs for Shirley Temple movies. "People save that stuff," Klumpner says of the freebies, giveaways and other advertising pieces that Laurel residents brought to the museum for the exhibit. (Laurel Leader, MD)
Spears, Ledger shouldn't be laughed at now Feb 6, 2008
Deb wrote on Feb 5, 2008 12:54 PM:" "Indulged" is the word. I don't know if it applies so much to Ledger, but child star syndrome has been around since little Shirley Temple, not to mention the Lil' Rascals. It amazes me evertime the new crop of child stars comes out - didn't anyone in their family read this story before?? We all know how it ends - and it always starts the same: an insecure (mentally, emotionally and finacially) morther or father has a self-diagnosed "gifted" child and forces... (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Oscars: 'Juno' Leaps Jan 23, 2008
But this kind of acting is far beyond the kind of material Shirley Temple ever had to deal with. I wonder if we re going to be hearing reverberations from all this in six or seven years. (Fox News)
Will thin be in, or will Sony be out? Jan 8, 2008
In the Depression, Shirley Temple did fine. By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY. (USA Today -- Tech)
1967: Temple on campaign trail Jan 4, 2008
Shirley Temple speaks at a GOP press conference in London in 1968 ... GOOD MORNING: Shirley Temple received no offers from Hollywood during her Congressional campaign, she laughingly told us on the longhorn from her Atherton home ... (2008 update: Shirley Temple Black, reminiscing about her Congressional run in 1967 recalls, "Bing Crosby called me when he heard I was going to run and I asked him to come to a fund-raising dinner. He said 'yes.' He was wonderful." But now recalling the election... (Variety)
The golden locket Dec 25, 2007
Momma wanted a Shirley Temple doll ... But she hung her stocking up anyway, and on Christmas morning there was a Shirley Temple doll in it ... It was Aunt Nell making sure that momma got the Shirley Temple doll and could believe one last time in Santa Claus. (Catoosa County News, GA)
NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Joe Nichols Leads Highlights of 2007 Dec 22, 2007
That reminds me that Shirley Temple should have tried a country music career. If you don't remember Miss Blonde Ringlets, Shirley Temple, Google her sometime. (VHI.com -- CMT.com Music News)
Artists, entertainers who died in 2007 include Deborah Kerr, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Goulet Dec 20, 2007
Child actress; Shirley Temple s pal in Heidi. Sept. 2. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
The Definitive DVDs Dec 15, 2007
Even casual movie fans of a certain age will be familiar with the official classics Young Mr. Lincoln, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, My Darling Clementine but there are other gems (the assassination drama The Prisoner of Shark Island, the Will Rogers Steamboat Round the Bend, the Shirley Temple Wee Willie Winkie) that look gorgeous in new restorations. Another treat: an illuminating documentary, Becoming John Ford, on the director's relationship with Fox mogul Darryl Zanuck. (Time.com)
Doppelganger Dec 3, 2007
I learned that there are many Bensons who thought it was a good idea to name their daughters after the Swiss orphan from a children's book who was played in the movie by Shirley Temple. Go figure. (San Francisco Chronicle)
John Ford At Fox Dec 2, 2007
He also shot everything from superb vehicles for Will Rogers ("Judge Priest") and Shirley Temple ("Wee Willie Winkie") to "Four Men and a Prayer," a sort of screwball comedy adventure in which Loretta Young watches Latin American civilians being massacred. The "Ford at Fox" set also includes an informative new documentary, "Becoming John Ford," and a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Remembering the 1930-1940 era Nov 30, 2007
"Famous people *Why were these people famous? Jesse Owens, Olympic gold medallist in track and field; Joe Louis, World heavyweight boxing champion; Babe Ruth, First great home run hitter; Walt Disney, Creator of the first animated features with sound; Shirley Temple, child movie star.Clothing*Did your mother make dresses or shirts from flour sacks? Did you wear hand-me-downs? Were clothes made into new garments reusing the material? Most did.What did women wear? :Knee or mid-calf length dresses... (Atlantic News-Telegraph, IO)
WHOVILLE AND MORE AT THE TOY TOWN MUSEUM Nov 21, 2007
Even Shirley Temple, Mae West, and W.C. Fields toys are in residence. "It ties into our whole theme of toys as art," said Kinsella. (East Aurora Advertiser, NY)
Acting out: Kids get chance on stage Nov 9, 2007
Child star Shirley Temple was the youngest person to receive an Oscar. Temple received her honorary Oscar in 1934 at age 6. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Throwing their hat in the ring Nov 3, 2007
The Cobb salad, named for the owner, was invented there, as was the drink named after actress and frequent customer Shirley Temple. In Booth 5, Clark Gable asked Carole Lombard to marry him, said Bob Mallozzi. (Albany Times Union)
More of this story Nov 3, 2007
The difference here is that the 12-year-old heroine Pecola Breedlove prays for eyes the color of Shirley Temple s as the key to acceptance in a racist 1941 Lorain, Ohio. Evoking the poetry and disturbing power of Morrison s writing, Diamond s play of the same name comes to hauntingly vivid life in its Company One Boston premiere at the Boston Center for the Arts. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
Painful truths in her coming of age Nov 2, 2007
Scenes in which the girls care for or destroy their Shirley Temple-style dolls resonate to embrace all the unrealistic images girls are expected to emulate. The pressure to fit in, so familiar to 12-year-olds everywhere, becomes perfectly clear when Rachael Hunt (outstanding in Company One's "Mr. Marmalade" last summer) appears as the most popular girl, who happens to have the lightest skin, and then later appears as the Shirley Temple look-alike who lives in the home where Pecola's mother... (Boston Globe)
'Eye' mines the depths of racism Oct 17, 2007
" The stage is bare. Time and place (circa 1940 in the industrial Ohio town of Lorain), scene and story are completely in the hands of the eight-person cast, with the help of Allen Hurtt's few, evocative props (the use of blond dolls is wonderfully inventive), Rose Plant's savvy costumes and dramatic lighting (Matthew Royce) and sound (David Molina) effects. Shanique S. Scott is as engaging as 12-year-old Pecola Breedlove as her self-abasing obsession with Shirley Temple cuteness is unsettling.... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Christina Applegate answers Samantha Who? Oct 16, 2007
It has like a Shirley Temple childlike nature to it. So for me it just seemed appropriate for the character. (MSNBC -- News)
Disney, Nickelodeon mint child stars Oct 5, 2007
Forget the Shirley Temple model. For programs aimed at kids in the 6-15 range, execs and producers say, an actor must come off as extremely relatable to the aud in a kid-next-door way, yet their on-air personality has to be compelling enough to get a firm grip on a demo with short attention spans. (Variety)
'Miss Moneypenny' actress dies Oct 4, 2007
She won a Golden Globe for the Shirley Temple comedy "That Hagen Girl" ... In the late 1940s, she moved to Hollywood and won a Golden Globe for her part in the Shirley Temple comedy "That Hagen Girl.". (CNN -- Showbiz)
Notorious winners line up for the punters Oct 3, 2007
In 2003, the transvestite potter Grayson Perry wore a frilly Shirley Temple dress to accept his award. Chris Ofili used elephant dung to adorn his 1998 winning entries. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Obituary: Lois Maxwell Oct 2, 2007
Her capacity to make an impression in the film was enhanced by the fact that the starring roles were essayed by an adult Shirley Temple and a callow Ronald Reagan. She enlisted as a soldier in the Canadian army, and became part of the Army Entertainment Corps, travelling through Europe during the second world war, performing music and dance numbers to entertain the troops. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Bond's Moneypenny Passes Oct 2, 2007
When she wasn't acting in Bond adventures, Maxwell also made her mark in the Shirley Temple comedy, That Hagen Girl, for which she earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Newcomer. She also appeared opposite future President Ronald Reagan in Bedtime for Bonzo and had a plumb part in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 classic, Lolita. (E! Online)
Turner Prize: Is it art? Fans get chance to decide Oct 2, 2007
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'Bond' Actress Dies Oct 1, 2007
" A spokesperson for Fremantle Hospital in Western Australia said she died there on Saturday evening. In the late 1940s, she tried to make a name for herself as a starlet in Hollywood. Maxwell won the Golden Globe Award as Best Newcomer for her role in the 1947 Shirley Temple comedy "That Hagen Girl. " She also posed for a photoshoot with another up-and-coming actress named Marilyn Monroe. Maxwell appeared in "Bedtime For Bonzo" with Ronald Reagan, who she said was "very handsome and attractive. (Fox News)
Report: 007's definitive Miss Moneypenny dies Oct 1, 2007
Definitive roleBorn in Kitchener, Ontario in February 1927, Maxwell won a Golden Globe award as Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1948 for her performance in the Shirley Temple comedy That Hagen Girl. . (MSNBC -- News)
Canada's Lois Maxwell, 'Miss Moneypenny,' dies at 80 Oct 1, 2007
"She was always fun and she was wonderful to be with,'' he told BBC Radio. Her movie career began in 1946 with "A Matter of Life and Death", and she won The Most Promising Newcomer Golden Globe Award the following year for her part in Shirley Temple comedy "That Hagen Girl. . (CTV.ca)
Bond star Lois Maxwell dies at 80 Oct 1, 2007
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Miss Moneypenny dies, aged 80 Oct 1, 2007
Born in Kitchener, Ontario in February 1927, Maxwell won a Golden Globe award as Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1948 for her performance in the Shirley Temple comedy That Hagen Girl. Although she appeared in many other films and television series and wrote a popular newspaper column for years, Maxwell was best known for her Moneypenny role. (Globe and Mail)
Actress Who Minted Moneypenny, Bonded With 007 Dies At 80 Oct 1, 2007
No," in 1962 as the secretary to M, the head of the secret service. She died Saturday night at Fremantle Hospital near her home in Perth, Australia, the BBC cited a hospital official as saying. Bond star Roger Moore said she was suffering from cancer. "It's rather a shock," Moore, who had known her since they were students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1944, told BBC radio. "She was always fun and she was wonderful to be with," he said. Born Lois Hooker in Ontario, Canada, in 1927, she... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Miss Moneypenny Actress Dies Aged 80 Sep 30, 2007
" She was succeeded by Caroline Bliss and later Samantha Bond.But many fans credit Maxwell as being the definitive Miss Moneypenny.Maxwell's final movie role was in the 2001 thriller The Fourth Angel. Maxwell and Samantha Bond A spokesperson for Fremantle Hospital in Western Australia said she died there on Saturday evening.In the late 1940s, she tried to make a name for herself as a starlet in Hollywood.Maxwell won the Golden Globe Award as Best Newcomer for her role in the 1947 Shirley Temple... (Sky News)
Entertainment guide Sep 28, 2007
CHILDREN'S LIBRARY PROGRAMS: Curious George party, today, 3:30 p.m., ages 3-8; "An American Girl Party: The Great Depression Era," Oct. 7, 2:30 p.m., ages 7-12; comics workshop, Oct. 13, 10 a.m. to noon, grades 4-6; family fall festival, Oct. 13, 2:30 p.m.; Shirley Temple film festival, Oct. 20, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Riding the Rails with a Hobo, Oct. 21, 2:30 p.m., ages 7-12, Lackawanna County Children's Library, 520 Vine St.. HUMANE SOCIETY OF WYOMING COUNTY RABIES CLINIC: Saturday, 9 a.m. to... (Scranton Times, PA)
Not afraid of the dark Sep 26, 2007
"In Mister Lonely we all live in a commune as the characters we impersonate and support each other. I'm married to a Charlie Chaplin impersonator and we have a daughter who is a Shirley Temple impersonator." Who is actually your daughter Esme. "Yes," she says with a look of impenetrable blankness. (Guardian Unlimited)
Carroll's beat blog Sep 15, 2007
These guys make Shirley Temple look like the wicked witch of the EAST. By r1U. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Name-Dropping Sep 14, 2007
Every so often in the business of reporting, you suspect you really shouldn't take the money, that you'd do this stuff gratis. I felt that way last week when Pavarotti died. (Forbes)
Young Canadian actress captures filmgoers' hearts Sep 13, 2007
Her character is equal parts Daria of MTV fame and a cockeyed optimist Shirley Temple might admire. Page keeps the story honest. (Chicago Tribune)
Last night's TV Sep 7, 2007
Once upon a time Harpo Marx fell into conversation with the child star Shirley Temple on the studio lot. Curiously, they looked very much alike. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Marcia Mae Jones, 83; TV, film actress Sep 7, 2007
With Shirley Temple, Jones played the disabled girl Klara in "Heidi" and Lavinia in "The Little Princess.". "There's a scene in 'The Little Princess' where Shirley Temple dumps a load of ashes over her head," Tim Chic said. (Los Angeles Times)
Former child star Jones dies, 83 Sep 6, 2007
Although she never achieved the stardom of fellow child stars Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, Jones played important roles in such films as The Garden of Allah, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and These Three. As a teenager she took parts in Let's Go Collegiate and Secrets of a Co-Ed. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Marcia Mae Jones, 1930s child star, dies at 83 Sep 5, 2007
Although she never achieved the stardom of Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, Jones played important roles in such films as "The Garden of Allah," "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "These Three."She started acting in films at age 2. Her son said she was proud of the fact that she was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild at age 6. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Fake fur has really gone to the dogs Aug 17, 2007
Quoted in this week's New York Daily News, Regina said: "When I saw dogs in tiaras and opera clothes and workout clothes and jewelry being carried around in $7,000 alligator bags and Chanels, I said, 'Oh, why not a wig for a dog?'" Styles include coiffures modeled after Shirley Temple, Posh Spice, the Beatles, and even Donald Trump's famous or is that infamous. comb-over. (MSNBC -- Business)
Masons receive highest degree in York Rite College Aug 17, 2007
Born one month apart in 1928, Starkey is a native of Polk County, whereas Threadgill, the elder of the two, shares Shirley Temple Black's birth date and proudly claims to be an official BOI of Galveston ... They spoke of Shirley Temple Black, the child actress. (Lake Houston Sun, TX)
Bid to root out lead trinkets falters in U.S. Aug 6, 2007
The hazardous jewelry has been brought onto the market by big-name companies like Mattel, Juicy Couture and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, which included 746,621 lead-contaminated "bonus charms" in a Shirley Temple movie package. But scores of small importers like Really Useful Products, a company with six employees based in Darien, Illinois, also delivered children's jewelry to national retailers with dangerous levels of lead. (International Herald Tribune)
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1078541430 Jul 24, 2007
Anna Paquin; Bright Eyes; Holly Hunter; Jodie Foster; Judy Garland; Keisha Castle Hughes; Mary Badham; Paper Moon; Patty Duke; Ryan O'Neil; Shirley Temple; Tatum O'Neil; taxi driver; The Exorcist; The Miracle Worker; The Piano; The Wizard of Oz; To Kill A Mockingbird; Whale Rider; abigail breslin; Best Supporting Actress; Linda Blair; Little Miss Sunshine; Mike Richards; Featured video. Featured Video Channels | | You need to upgrade your Flash Player This is replaced by the Flash content. (Variety)
Views in the Valley - Boy, our young people have talent Jul 24, 2007
She had just performed a near-flawless modern-day Shirley Temple routine. Oh, what a treat she gave us all. (Missouri Valley Times News, IA)
Get your coat, you've just pulled Jul 22, 2007
Even more disturbingly, Mead, curly-haired, and the proud possessor of sturdy real-man thighs, is also sporting a pair of knee-high white pop socks and white patent shoes, giving the impression of either a very camp rugby forward or a very butch Little Shirley Temple. Seconds later, Joseph is rolling around a bed, trying to escape molestation by a technically topless Mrs Potiphar, her modesty only saved by what appear to be a pole dancer's nipple tassels. (Guardian Unlimited)
It was 40 years ago today ... Jul 22, 2007
"Jann HaworthJann Haworth in the mountains near her Sundance cabin. Eventually, Madame Tussaud's wax museum offered some figures, but Haworth's old lady and Shirley Temple dolls remained part of the final scene. While she's adamant about her contribution to "Sgt. Pepper," Haworth also is gracious enough to acknowledge that Blake's vision was very important. "Full credit to Peter for the idea of the crowd, and full credit for the idea of the heroes for the Beatles. (Deseret News)
Can Daniel Radcliffe's career magic last? Jul 18, 2007
This is a recent but undated photo of Daniel Radcliffe, the boy wizard from the 'Harry Potter' movies, who opened the Tony Award-winning drama 'Equus' on the London stage on Feb. 27, 2007. He is posing with Joanna Christie. (CTV.ca)
Stars' friendship is reborn Jul 9, 2007
Not many little girls grow up in front of a movie camera with Katharine Hepburn playing their mother or Shirley Temple as their dancing partner ... When it came to beauty and talent, Marilyn could have compared with Shirley Temple if her parents had so chosen. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Museum to serve up ice cream social, silent movie Jul 7, 2007
Most people are familiar with the 1936 sound-era version of this movie that featured mop-topped Shirley Temple and Buddy Ebsen - of "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Barnaby Jones" TV fame - but not this version. "Captain January" is a 1924 silent film (running 63 minutes) featuring child star Baby Peggy and former Littlerock resident Hobart Bosworth. (Los Angeles Daily News)
Flashback: Beverly Sills, 1929-2007 Jul 4, 2007
After all, this was the era of Shirley Temple. But a professional singer. (Time.com)
Beverly Sills, people's diva, dies Jul 3, 2007
"When I was 4 or 5, everybody's mother was convinced their daughter was the next Shirley Temple," Ms. Sills said last year in a Newsday interview. "I was the operatic Shirley Temple.". (Boston Globe)
