Shirley Temple (Actor)

Reviews of Shirley Temple Movies

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Movies starring Shirley Temple have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.

Fort Apache - released in 1948 - is Shirley Temple's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 121 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Shirley Temple is Red Haired Alibi - released in 1932 - with a score of 47% based on 2 reviews.

Actor Biography

Shirley Temple was easily the most popular and famous child star of all time. She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon progressed to super stardom. Shirley could do it all: act, sing and dance and all at the age of five! Fans loved her as she was bright, bouncy and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of dollars worth of products that had her likeness on them. Dolls, phonograph records, mugs, hats, dresses, whatever it was, if it had her picture on there they bought it. Shirley was box-office champion for the consecutive years 1935-36-37-38, beating out such great grown-up stars as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford. By 1939, her popularity declined. Although she starred in some very good movies like Since You Went Away (1944) and the The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), her career was nearing its end. Later, she served as an ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. It was once guessed that she had more than 50 golden curls on her head. Her mother, Gertrude Temple, did her hair in pin curls for each movie. Every hairstyle had exactly 56 curls.

Shirley Temple has acted in films with Cary Grant, Bill Robinson, Jane Darwell and James Dunn.

Shirley Temple has worked with these film directors: David Butler, Irving Cummings, John Ford and Michael Curtiz.