'35 Shirley Temple McCrea OUR LITTLE GIRL Lantern Slide

'35 Shirley Temple McCrea OUR LITTLE GIRL Lantern Slide (image 1/1)
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This is a magic lantern "coming attraction" slide projected on the screen of a theater during intermission to advertise a feature film which would be appearing soon. It reads, "Shirely Temple OUR LITTLE GIRL with Rosewary Ames, Joel McCrea, Lyle Talbot, Erin O'Brien-Moore. Directed by John Robertson.... " It was filmed in 1935. Shirley was 7 when she made this movie. 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 t they bought it. Shirley was the box-office champion for three straight years, 1936-37-38, 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 read more
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