Shirley TempleFilmography

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures From The 20th Century Fox Vaults

Actors: Joan Collins

Synopsis: Joan Collins is the host of these outtakes and clips deleted from 20th Century-Fox productions of decades past. Entertaining song selections in the compilation include Betty Grable sequences from Footlight Serenade (1942) and Pin Up Girl (1944), Carmen Miranda wearing a lighthouse on her head Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Shirley Temple - America's Little Darling

Synopsis: Tommy Tune and others talk about the unique childhood acting and dancing career of Shirley Temple in this video. Her signature song, "On the Good Ship Lollipop," was first sung for audiences in her film Bright Eyes in 1934. Shirley's ability to capture the hearts of the public became most evident Read More

Shirley Temple Scrapbook

Synopsis: The Shirley Temple Scrapbook pays homage to the legendary child star who helped America forget their troubles during the Great Depression. The film provides a visual biography of the beloved curly topped actress who sang and danced her way into movie history as one of the most successful child Read More

The Rose Parade: Through the Years

Gotta Dance, Gotta Sing

Synopsis: This hour-long documentary is culled from the mid-1970s TV series That's Hollywood. As one can gather by the title, this is a collection of movie-musical highlights, most of them lifted from the output of 20th Century-Fox. Featured performers include Carmen Miranda (tutti-frutti hat and all) Read More

Hollywood's Children

Actors: Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Directed in 1982 by Gene Feldman, this acclaimed documentary examines the emotional price child actors pay for being Hollywood stars. Narrated by Roddy McDowall, who was himself a child star, this program also looks at how well child stars have made the transition to adulthood. The program Read More

The Sound of Laughter

Synopsis: Ed Wynn hosts this compilation of comedic material from the likes of Imogene Coca and Buster Keaton. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Shirley Temple Storybook Collection: The Little Mermaid

Actors: Shirley Temple, Nina Foch, Cathleen Nesbitt, Donald Harron, Ray Walston

The Shirley Temple Show: The Land of Oz

Shirley Temple's Storybook [TV Series]

Shirley Temple's Storybook: Beauty and the Beast

Actors: Shirley Temple, Claire Bloom, Charlton Heston, E.G. Marshall, June Lockhart

Synopsis: After a self-imposed, nine-year "retirement," former child star Shirley Temple returned to show business as host and occasional star of a series of monthly specials based on popular fairy tales. The first entry of Shirley Temple's Storybook, and one of the few to be broadcast live (most subsequent Read More

The Story of Seabiscuit

Actors: Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister, Rosemary de Camp, Donald MacBride

Synopsis: The racehorse Seabiscuit really existed, but this is not his true story -- this is a romance and centers on lovely Margaret O'Hara (Shirley Temple), an Irish lass who comes to cheer on her uncle Shawn O'Hara's (Barry Fitzgerald) horse during the big races and ends up falling in love with handsome Read More

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College

Actors: Clifton Webb, Shirley Temple, Tom Drake, Alan Young

Synopsis: Clifton Webb recreates his Sitting Pretty role as Mr. Lynn Belvedere, the World's Greatest Genius. Belvedere discovers that he is ineligible for an honorary award because he never attended college. So he enrolls as a freshman in a major university, becoming the target for "hazing" from obnoxious Read More

Almost a Bride

Actors: Shirley Temple, David Niven, Tom Tully, Virginia Welles, Darryl Hickman

Synopsis: Shirley Temple's final starring film, A Kiss for Corliss is a sequel to the actress' 1945 hit Kiss and Tell. The 21-year-old Temple again stars as impulsive teenager Corliss Archer, who on this occasion harbors a crush on notorious playboy Kenneth Marquis (David Niven), who has already been to the Read More

Adventure in Baltimore

Actors: Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Albert Sharpe, Josephine Hutchinson

Synopsis: Set in the early 1900s, Adventure in Baltimore is a romantic comedy about the woman's suffrage movement. Shirley Temple plays a student at an exclusive girl's school who "sees the light" and begins campaigning for women's rights. This doesn't sit well with her minister father (Robert Young) nor Read More

Fort Apache

Actors: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Pedro Armendáriz, Dick Foran

Synopsis: The first of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", Fort Apache stars John Wayne as captain Kirby York and Henry Fonda as Custer clone Lt. Col. Owen Thursday. Resentful of his loss in rank and transfer to the West after serving gallantly in the Civil War, the vainglorious Thursday insists upon imposing Read More

Honeymoon

Actors: Shirley Temple, Franchot Tone, Guy Madison, Lina Romay, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Honeymoon stars an attractively grown-up Shirley Temple as Barbara, the sweetheart of a GI corporal named Phil (Guy Madison). Eloping to Mexico City, Barbara discovers that her boy friend, stationed in the Panama Canal zone, is tied up in bureaucratic red tape and may not make it to his own Read More

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Actors: Irving Bacon, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, William Bakewell, Shirley Temple, Ian Bernard, Rudy Vallee, Veda Ann Borg, Ray Collins

Synopsis: Judge Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher Cary Grant is to force him to do what he does best--romance a willing young lady. In this instance, the girl is Loy's own sister, played by a blossoming Shirley Temple. Aware that Temple has a serious crush on Grant Read More

That Hagen Girl

Actors: Shirley Temple, Ronald Reagan, Rory Calhoun, Dorothy Peterson, Charles Kemper

Synopsis: A young girl is adopted into a small town family, but instead of finding happiness, she finds her life a living nightmare due to neighbors' constant speculation as to he father's identity. The scuttlebutt is that she is the illegitimate daughter of a prominent lawyer and former resident (Ronald Read More

Kiss and Tell

Actors: Shirley Temple, Jerome Courtland, Walter Abel, Katherine Alexander, Robert Benchley

Synopsis: If there were any doubts that little Shirley Temple was all grown up by 1945, those doubts were disippated by her appearance in Columbia's Kiss and Tell. Based on the mildly risque stage comedy by F. Hugh Herbert, the film casts Temple as impulsive teenager Corliss Archer, who is the only person Read More

Since You Went Away

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Monty Woolley, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: David O. Selznick's first production since 1940's Rebecca, Since You Went Away, based on Margaret Buell Wilder's bestselling novel, is a long but rewarding paean to the World War 2 "home front". Claudette Colbert plays the wife of a businessman who, though well past draft age, volunteered to serve Read More

I'll Be Seeing You

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Ginger Rogers gives a dramatic performance in this moving romantic drama in which a woman named Mary Marshall, who was convicted of manslaughter (she defended herself when her lecherous boss attempted to rape her and she accidentally killed him), is granted a ten-day furlough for Christmas to Read More

Miss Annie Rooney

Actors: Shirley Temple, William Gargan, Guy Kibbee, Dickie Moore, Peggy Ryan

Synopsis: 14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular Annie Rooney, the starry-eyed, idealistic daughter of erstwhile --and impoverished--inventor Tim Rooney (William Gargan). Annie is swept off her feet by intellectual Read More

Kathleen

Actors: Shirley Temple, Herbert Marshall, Laraine Day, Gail Patrick, Felix Bressart

Synopsis: Having tried to wrest Shirley Temple away from 20th Century-Fox for nearly seven years, MGM was finally able to put the enormously popular child star under contract in 1941. Alas, by this time the bloom was off the rose for 13-year-old Temple, and her inaugural MGM production Kathleen was met with Read More

The Blue Bird

Actors: Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins

Synopsis: When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell through, Zanuck hastily assembled a lavish Technicolor vehicle for his diminutive star which, he hoped, would match Wizard in popularity and appeal. The result was The Blue Bird, adapted from the Read More

Young People

Actors: Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Charlotte Greenwood, Arleen Whelan, George Montgomery

Synopsis: "Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy Young People. After years of trodding the boards in vaudeville, Wendy Ballantine (Temple) and her adoptive parents Joe (Jack Oakie) and Kit (Charlotte Greenwood retire) to Read More

Susannah of the Mounties

Actors: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: The sole survivor of an Indian attack, orphan girl Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) becomes the mascot of the Canadian Mountie outpost headed by Superintendent Standing (Moroni Olsen). Mountie Angus "Monty" Montague (Randolph Scott) and his sweetheart (and Standing's daughter), Vicky (Margaret Lockwood Read More

The Little Princess

Actors: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: Shirley Temple's first Technicolor feature, The Little Princess was inspired by the oft-filmed novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Set in turn-of-the-century England, the film finds Temple being enrolled in a boarding school by her wealthy widowed father (Ian Hunter), who must head off to fight in Read More

Just Around the Corner

Actors: Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell, Amanda Duff

Synopsis: Just Around the Corner is the film in which little Shirley Temple ends the Depression all by herself! The story starts realistically enough, with 10-year-old Penny Hale (Temple) sharing a basement apartment with her widowed father Jeff (Charles Farrell, in his final Fox film). Once a prosperous Read More

Little Miss Broadway

Actors: Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Brooks, Edna May Oliver

Synopsis: Child star Shirley Temple was getting a bit long in the tooth (at age 10!) by the time she made Little Miss Broadway. Facing the possibility that Temple's appeal was beginning to slip, the producers overstocked the film with top musical-comedy performers and character actors. The curly-topped Read More

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Actors: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Phyllis Brooks, Helen Westley

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and completely, totally, utterly rewritten--as a vehicle for 10-year-old Shirley Temple. Unable to land a radio contract for himself and his niece Rebecca Winstead (Temple) Read More

Wee Willie Winkie

Actors: Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang, Michael Whalen

Synopsis: In this lovely John Ford film, Joyce Williams (June Lang) and her young daughter, Priscilla (Shirley Temple), travel to India to live on a British Army base with Joyce's father, Colonel Williams, Aubrey C. Smith). Once there, sweet, young Priscilla manages to win the love and affection of the Read More

Heidi

Actors: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley, Pauline Moore

Synopsis: Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her best vehicles. Orphaned early in the proceeding, Heidi is left in the care of her bitter, misanthropic grandfather Adolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt). It doesn't take long before Read More

Dimples

Actors: Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Helen Westley, Robert Kent, Delma Byron

Synopsis: This lavish Shirley Temple starrer is set in New York, sometime in the 1850s. While lovable pickpocket "Professor" Eustace Appleby works the crowd, his talented granddaughter Dimples (Temple) dances for pennies. Dimples demands that Appleby stop his thieving ways, but every time he tries to follow Read More

Poor Little Rich Girl

Actors: Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart, Jack Haley, Michael Whalen

Synopsis: A remake of the 1917 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name, Poor Little Rich Girl stars Shirley Temple in the title role. Neglected by her widowed soap-tycoon father (Michael Whalen), lonely Barbara Barry (Temple) spends most of her time in the company of her nursemaid Collins (Sara Haden). While Read More

Stowaway

Actors: Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye, Eugene Pallette, Helen Westley

Synopsis: Stranded in Shanghai, orphaned Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), the ward of Chinese missionaries, is rescued from harm by playboy Tommy Randall (Robert Young). Through a series of unbelievable but entertaining circumstances, Ching-Ching inadvertently stows away on a boat bound for San Francisco Read More

Captain January

Actors: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, George "Slim" Summerville, Buddy Ebsen

Synopsis: Previously filmed as a vehicle for Baby Peggy Montgomery in 1922, Laura E. Richard's Captain January was warmed up as a Shirley Temple picture 14 years later. Temple plays Star, a child of divorce who is looked after by crusty-but-lovable lighthouse keeper Captain January (Guy Kibbee). Truant Read More

The Littlest Rebel

Actors: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

Synopsis: The old Edward Peble play The Littlest Rebel was gussied up in 1935 as a Shirley Temple vehicle. The curly-topped child star plays Virgie Cary, who lives in Southern-Plantation splendor with her dad Herbert (John Boles) and mom (Karen Morley). The family's idyllic existence is shattered when the Read More

The Little Colonel

Actors: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Shirley Temple's first costume picture -- and one of her best pictures of any kind -- was 1935's The Little Colonel. The story begins in 1870, when unreconstructed Southerner Colonel Lloyd (Lionel Barrymore) disowns his daughter Elizabeth (Evelyn Venable) when she stubbornly marries damn-Yankee Read More

Our Little Girl

Actors: Shirley Temple, Rosemary Ames, Joel McCrea, Lyle Talbot, Erin O'Brien-Moore

Synopsis: With Shirley Temple heading the cast of Our Little Girl, it's a moot point as to who plays the title role. Temple is cast as Molly Middleton, daughter of Dr. Donald Middleton (Joel McCrea) and his wife Elsa (Rosemary Ames). Long unhappy in their marriage, Donald and Elsa have stayed together this Read More

Curly Top

Actors: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Rochelle Hudson, Jane Darwell, Rafaela Ottiano

Synopsis: This adaptation of the oft-filmed Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs has been tailored to the talents of Shirley Temple. The orphaned daughter of vaudeville entertainers, Elizabeth Blair (Temple) is the most precocious charge at super-strict Lakeside Orphanage, regularly disrupting protocol with Read More

Carolina

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Young, Richard Cromwell, Henrietta Crosman

Synopsis: Carolina, a melodrama directed by Henry King, follows a young woman's attempt to restore a southern plantation back to its pre-Civil War glory. Joanna Tate (Janet Gaynor), originally travels from her home in Pennsylvania to the plantation in order to collect her deceased father's belongings. Read More

Pardon My Pups

Managed Money

Now and Forever

Actors: Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple, Guy Standing, Charlotte Granville

Synopsis: Ne'er-do-well Gary Cooper is so desperate for quick cash that he's willing to sell the custody rights of his own daughter (Shirley Temple), whom he's never seen. Cooper's girlfriend Carole Lombard is shocked by this callousness and walks out on him, but when Cooper meets his daughter and has a Read More

Mandalay

Actors: Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: The official cast list of Warner Bros. Mandalay states that Kay Francis plays a character named Tanya. For most of the film, however, the heroine -- if she can be called that -- goes by the name of Spot White (or "Spot Cash," as she's cynically designated by one of the lesser characters). Betrayed Read More

Change of Heart

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers, Beryl Mercer

Synopsis: Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas, things don't go so well for the foursome when they return to earth to seek out employment. Chris Thring (Charles Farrell) has a particularly rough time of it, but his Read More

Now I'll Tell

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Helen Twelvetrees, Alice Faye, Robert Gleckler, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: Though the names have been changed to protect the guilty, this romantic crime drama offers a relatively factual account of the life of Arnold Rothstein, an infamous bookie and is based upon a story by his widow. The story tells how he gambled his way to the top of his profession. Though he Read More

Stand up and Cheer

Actors: Warner Baxter, Madge Evans, James Dunn, John Boles

Synopsis: Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's mind off the Depression. To this end, he appoints Broadway impresario Lawrence Cromwell (Warner Baxter) to the new cabinet position of "Secretary of Amusement." Wasting no Read More

Little Miss Marker

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Shirley Temple, Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman

Synopsis: Perhaps the most memorable of all of the movies based on Damon Runyon's story because of the winning presence of Shirley Temple (although it was remade three times), this is the story of a little girl who is left as a marker for a $20.00 bet. Temple's father kills himself and the bookie doesn't Read More

New Deal Rhythm

Baby, Take a Bow

Actors: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Claire Trevor, Alan Dinehart, Ray Walker

Synopsis: Shirley Temple's first starring vehicle casts her as the button-cute daughter of ex-convict Eddie Ellison (James Dunn) and his wife Kay (Claire Trevor). Ellison and his old cellmate Larry Scott (Ray Walker) manage to land jobs as chauffeurs for a wealthy family. When a valuable string of pearls Read More

Bright Eyes

Actors: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell, Judith Allen, Lois Wilson

Synopsis: Despite stiff competition like Poor Little Rich Girl and Heidi, Bright Eyes is arguably the best of Shirley Temple's 1930s vehicles. The little curly-top is cast as Shirley Blake, daughter of Mary Blake (Lois Wilson), the widowed housemaid of snooty J. Wellington and Anita Smythe (Theodore Von Eltz Read More

To the Last Man

Actors: Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jack LaRue, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1923, Zane Grey's To the Last Man manages to pack plenty of A-level production values into what was essentially a B-picture budget. In the years following the Civil War, Kentucky man Lynn Hayden (Randolph Scott) moves his family to Nevada, partly to start life anew, but mostly Read More

Dora's Dunkin' Donuts

Synopsis: Despite Shirley Temple's over-the-title billing, the real star of Dora's Dunkin' Doughnuts is Andy Clyde playing Andy Wilson, a small town teacher in love with Dora, the local baker. Dora calls him away from his class one day to let him know that she has created the perfect doughnut -- one that Read More

Polly Tix in Washington

The Kid's Last Fight

Actors: Shirley Temple

Kid 'n' Africa

Synopsis: Kid in Africa is a one-reeler that places young children in the roles usually played by adults in a typical jungle adventure. Shirley Temple plays Madame Cradlebait, a missionary determined to civilize the cannibals in the jungle. Her expedition, weary from travel, settles in a camp after a long Read More

Kid 'n' Hollywood

Out All Night

Actors: George "Slim" Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Laura Hope Crewes, Shirley Grey, Alexander Carr

Synopsis: In this comedy, a young couple are forced to marry after they are accidentally locked in a store overnight. Unfortunately for the young groom, his overbearing mother is unhappy with the match and keeps trying to get them divorced. She even follows them on their honeymoon. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The Red-Haired Alibi

Actors: Merna Kennedy, Theodore Von Eltz, Grant Withers, Purnell Pratt, Huntly Gordon

Synopsis: It's remotely possible that the title of this low-budget meller was inspired by Jean Harlow's better-known Red Headed Woman. Lured to New York by smooth-talking gangster Trent Travers (Theodore Von Eltz), carrot-topped Lynn Monith (Merna Kennedy) is soon earning oodles of money to keep Travers Read More

The Pie Covered Wagon

War Babies

Synopsis: One of several shorts made early in Shirley Temple's career, War Babies is essentially a take-off on war movie conventions, performed by a cast of infants and very young children. Babies takes place at Buttermilk Pete's Café, where the dress code runs to diapers and rubber pants, with the Read More

What's to Do?

Merrily Yours

Glad Rags to Riches

Storybook Theater: The Emperor's New Clothes

Storybook Theater: The Land of Green Ginger

Storybook Theater: The Nightingale

Storybook Theater: The Wild Swan

Storybook Theater: The Little Lame Prince

Storybook Theater: The Magic Fishbone

Storybook Theater: Dick Whittington and His Cat

Storybook Theater: Hiawatha

Storybook Theater: Mother Goose

Storybook Theater: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Storybook Theater: Sleeping Beauty

Storybook Theater: Rip Van Winkle

Storybook Theater: Rapunzel