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The Little Princess

The Little Princess (1939) more movies like this

directed by Walter Lang
featuring Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero

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 the Boer War. At first, Temple is treated like ...

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Heidi

Heidi (1937) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley, Pauline Moore

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 the sweet little child has melted grandpa's ...

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Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away (1944) more movies like this

directed by John Cromwell
featuring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Agnes Moorehead, Monty Woolley

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 his country as an officer (though the husband is ...

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Fort Apache

Fort Apache (1948) more movies like this

directed by John Ford
featuring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Ward Bond, John Agar, Dick Foran, Pedro Armendáriz

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 rigid authority on rough-and-tumble Fort Apache. He ...

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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) more movies like this

directed by Irving G. Reis
featuring Cary Grant, Irving Bacon, Myrna Loy, William Bakewell, Ian Bernard, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Veda Ann Borg, Ray Collins

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, Loy orders him to date the teen-aged Temple ...

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The Little Colonel

The Little Colonel (1935) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge, Sidney Blackmer

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 Jack Sherman (John Lodge). Several years pass, during ...

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Poor Little Rich Girl

Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) more movies like this

directed by Irving Cummings
featuring Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart, Jack Haley, Michael Whalen

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 on a shopping excursion in the City, Collins is ...

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Captain January

Captain January (1936) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, George "Slim" Summerville, Buddy Ebsen

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 officer Agatha Morgan (Sara Haden) determines that the ...

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The Story of Seabiscuit

The Story of Seabiscuit (1949) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister, Rosemary de Camp, Donald MacBride

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 jockey Ted Knowles (Lon McCallister). He asks for ...

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Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes (1934) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell, Judith Allen, Lois Wilson

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 and Dorothy Christy). Though continually ...

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Dimples (1936) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Helen Westley, Robert Kent, Delma Byron

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 the straight and narrow, he comes out the loser ...

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Curly Top (1935) more movies like this

directed by Irving Cummings
featuring Shirley Temple, John Boles, Rochelle Hudson, Jane Darwell, Rafaela Ottiano

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 her extemporaneous performance of such songs as ...

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Helen Westley, Phyllis Brooks

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), fly-by-night vaudevillian Henry Kipper (William ...

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The Blue Bird (1940) more movies like this

directed by Walter Lang
featuring Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins

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 allegorical stage play by Maurice Maeterlinck ...

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The Littlest Rebel (1935) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

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 Civil War breaks out. A captain in the Confederacy, ...

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Stowaway (1936) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye, Eugene Pallette, Helen Westley

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, which happens to include Tommy on the passenger list. ...

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Little Miss Broadway (1938) more movies like this

directed by Irving Cummings
featuring Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Brooks, Edna May Oliver

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 actress is cast as orphan girl Betsy Brown, discharged ...

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Wee Willie Winkie (1937) more movies like this

directed by John Ford
featuring Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang, Michael Whalen

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 soldiers and her curmudgeonly grandfather, and she ...

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Young People (1940) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Charlotte Greenwood, Arleen Whelan, George Montgomery

"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 a small town so that the youngster can receive a ...

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Baby, Take a Bow (1934) more movies like this

directed by Harry Lachman
featuring Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Claire Trevor, Alan Dinehart, Ray Walker

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 disappears, both men are fired and Eddie is accused ...

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Now and Forever (1934) more movies like this

directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple, Guy Standing, Charlotte Granville

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 change of heart, he reclaims the little girl and is ...

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Little Miss Marker (1934) more movies like this

directed by Alexander Hall
featuring Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Shirley Temple, Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman

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 know what to do with the young girl. Needless to say, ...

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Our Little Girl (1935) more movies like this

directed by John S. Robertson
featuring Shirley Temple, Rosemary Ames, Joel McCrea, Lyle Talbot, Erin O'Brien-Moore

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 long only for the sake of cute little Molly. The ...

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Susannah of the Mounties (1939) more movies like this

directed by Walter Lang, William Seiter
featuring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood, John Farrell MacDonald

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), appoint themselves as Susannah's ...

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Just Around the Corner (1938) more movies like this

directed by Irving Cummings
featuring Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell, Amanda Duff

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 architect, Jeff has been working as a hotel janitor ...

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