AS SEEN ON TV: SHIRLEY TEMPLE

On this date in 1934, Shirley Temple made her motion picture debut in "Stand Up And Cheer!", which also starred Warner Baxter, James Dunn, Nigel Bruce, and Stepin Fetchit. The movie was escapist fluff for the Depression, in which President Roosevelt created the Department of Amusement to lift the spirits of the American public. And little Shirley Dugan was one of its secret weapons of mass distraction. Shirley Temple was portrayed on television several times, but this is a picture of "her" (played by Emily Hart) in "Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story". That TV movie was broadcast in 2001, a year in which America once again would need its spirits lifted....

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Toby O'B