Calm down.
The Shirley Temple I've selected as this week's Girl Friday is actually the version found somewhere between the 1930's moppet and the 1960's beehive topped Republican Ambassador :)
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple was one of the original actresses to fall victim to her own success as a child star. She was so wildly popular as a little kid, that no one could see her in any other role. The public refused to let her grow up in their minds. As she became a beautiful young woman, roles got harder to find and the ones that she did get didn't receive positive reviews for the most part.
Ms. Temple married briefly the first time at age 17. That marriage ended in divorce and she married her second husband, Charles Alden Black, in 1950. They stayed together until he passed away in 2005. Shirley was active in the Republican Party and served her country as a representative to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as being Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia over the years.
Compare that track record of Marriage and Career to most of the more recent child stars, and see how they measure up ...
5 comments:
She's a beauty, that's for sure. I didn't know all of that about her either, it's kinda sad that her career was so limited 9by others) but at least it seems she had found solice in her personal relationships where most just give up and kill themselves. Strong woman.
"The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer." 1930-something, Shirley Temple and Cary Grant screwball comedy. I did not know, until seeing it, that Shirley was WOW.
And today we have LiLo? Really, things haven't improved.
Xmichra - Yeah, she was a pretty interesting person. And a really nice lady, by all the accounts that I've read.
Scotaku - I like that movie, too. Besides, its another opportunity to see Myrna Loy, and that's never a bad thing :)
Late to the party, but a story:
When we lived in Her Majesty's Scepter'd Isle, we bought a play house for the kids from a place that specialized in Garden Sheds/Play Houses. They, catching on to the fact that we were Yanks, made sure to point out that they had sold a Play House to Ambassador Temple-Black.
And to the Royal Family, for the Princesses. I was more impressed with OUR princess than theirs ....
We moved the damn thing to Atlanta, and then to the People's Republic, where I turned it into a tree house. If we move again, I think I'll just leave the damn thing.
That's cool :)
And now, many years later, they include the fact that they sold one to "That Borepatch Fellow.. You know, the Chap from Teh Intarwebs". :)
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