Shirley Temple Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in...

As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life...

Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, but his father has decided to buy him a dog...

A little girl falls asleep in her high chair as her parents and their friends discuss the film The Front Page. She dreams about reporters, a cop, and...

As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts...

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and...

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly...

Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her...

How did Marilyn Monroe become one of the greatest sex symbols of all time? What drove a prudish little Californian girl, who was not especially...

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.

Shirley acts as a rich "gold digger" trying to elect a cowboy politician to the office.

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry...

A compilation of Shirley Temple newsreel appearances from the 1930's.

Shirley has gone to Africa to civilize the cannibals; something she is able to do with the assistance of Diperzan.

A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.