Who else up in this motherfucker is a big Shirley Temple fan?

oh, and wee willie winkie is wonderful. the other ones have their moments (the ones i've seen).

She was obviously the most extremely talented (famously modest and unspoiled, too, by the way) chld star of all time, and she pretty much single-handedly saved Fox.

hstencil - I'm aware of her right wing leanings, natch, but beyond that, I don't know a whole lot about her ambassadorial work.

roddy mcdowall dude!

she was unique among child stars in being so f---ing popular that the studio assigned the best cameramen and craftsmen to her pictures, and sometimes the best directors and costars too. so unlike the cheapy sudsers you'd expect, you often get these huge, super-high-production-value sudsters.

wtf???

gee, thanks a lot shirl!

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i was not aware she was still alive. how about that

there are shirley temple internet forums that are so sad (in the proper sense, not sad as in pathetic or whatever)

sad now

or sad always

?

rip shirley

i'm sad now :( i listened to animal crackers this afternoon in memory. rip shirley temple u made 5yo mordy very happy

arthur freed anecdote in NYT obit is O_O

like how/why did they just drop that in there?

RIP Shirley Temple
I love people who abandon showbiz for something relatively unsexy like international diplomacy.

Shirley Temple Black, rather

yeah i thought it was weird that national news programs just called her "shirley temple"

she hadn't gone by that name in over 50 years

Funny how no one cares about the superstars of international diplomacy :-/

That Arthur Freed anecdote is everywhere; it's in her memoirs. He went on to produce Singin' in the Rain, so y'all can vow never to watch that overrated musical again.

she would hardly qualify

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i know it's in her memoir, since the NYT cited it. also, how's your straw man holding up?

and more to the point, he also produced meet me in st. louis

What MGM honcho did horrid things to Garland? I forget...

sorry I didn't click on the NYT obit since it costs me a view and i buy the paper on Wednesdays.

John Agar, teh abusive first husband, is in Fort Apache with Temple.

I guess she was also the last of the top-billed John Ford stars.

morbs you can get around the paywall by clicking on the article from google -- just google the headline

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/shirley-temples-grunge-connection-as-679538

there's a great story about John Agar that John Frankenheimer tells. i'll do my best to recount it.

it was when Frankenheimer was directing live TV. Agar was cast in one of his shows. by this point, he was probably five years divorced from Shirley Temple. he had become a drunk, and his career had stumbled because, well, everybody hates the guy that whupped America's sweetheart.

also, because he couldn't act. Agar flubbed his way through rehearsals for the TV show, having trouble remembering lines, not hitting his marks. when it came time for the live broadcast, Frankenheimer found him backstage with a bottle of something, shaking and sweating and looking terrified. "I can't do this!" Frankenheimer reassured him that he could. Agar wasn't hearing it. he tries to leave the set, leave the building. Frankenheimer has to order the crew to stop him (since: no Agar, no broadcast!). if I'm not mistaken Agar either throws up or pisses himself at this point. "You don't understand! I CAN'T ACT! I COULD NEVER ACT! IT'S ALL A LIE! GOD HELP ME!" Frankenheimer thinks: no shit, sherlock. finally, Frankenheimer has to have the crew basically push Agar out there, sweating and shaky, to make his first cue. things go OK until a few scenes in, and Agar can't remember his line. a crew member has to basically slide along the studio floor, just under the view of the cameras, to hold up cue cards so that Agar can remember his lines. he finally makes it through the episode but Frankenheimer vows never to work w/ him again.

to be fair Agar had a long career in TV and B-movies (well, more like Z-movies). and although he was an alcoholic he lived until 2002 and stayed married to the same woman for over 50 years. but I still love that story.

oh also, apparently when Frankenheimer had learned that the agency had cast John Agar in a complex, difficult part, his reaction was basically, "Are you fucking kidding me?"