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Child Star, an autobiography / Amazon. Shirley Temple shaped an era and was as much a product of her time as she influenced it. Her reign can feel pretty distant, however, but we can learn all about her experiences in her own words thanks to the 1988 autobiography Child Star. Over 500 pages of intimate account of Temple’s unique life.
Feb 14, 2014 · He believes her. His attitudes towards Allen, whose films he cites as “the finest America has produced,” are more complicated: “I do not . . . share Dylan’s extension of the responsibility ...
Nov 6, 2023 · At the peak of her career, Shirley commanded a salary of $10,000 a week, earning her a healthy $3.2 million. She had also earned money from dolls, clothing and other items which bore her likeness ...
Mar 14, 2024 · 4. A Woman Once Tried to Assassinate Her. In 1939, as an 11-year-old Shirley Temple was performing the song “Silent Night” live on radio, a woman attempted to assassinate her. The perpetrator was convinced that the child star had swiped her daughter’s soul, and it was only by shooting her that she would unleash it. 5.
Ironically, Garland shares the same pedophilic themes in her bio. After Arthur Freed exposed his pickle to Shirley Temple on the MGM casting couch, Temple claimed to have told Freed: “I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.”. Judy Garland later claimed a similar incident in the principal’s office.
Oct 18, 2018 · Shirley Temple achieved international stardom with the release of Bright Eyes in 1934. When she was 12 years old, Shirley signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Pixabay. Shirley Temple describes in her autobiography that on her first visit to MGM, she met one of the studio’s producers, Arthur Freed. During the interview he unzipped his trousers and ...
Feb 16, 2018 · As an innocent child star, it is hard to think that Shirley Temple might be the object of sexual abuse. But as Ann Hulbert relates in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, on at least one occasion she was. One day, the twelve year-old Temple was alone with MGM producer Arthur Freed in his office when he exposed himself to her.
