Shirley Temple

The only cockeyed feature about me is my nose, and that shouldn't prove such a handicap.

I understand they can hook enough filters, portrait attachments, and jiggers to the camera to make Madame X look like Shirley Temple.

My only real regret in starting for L.A. was my fiddle.

Since the only way I could afford to cross the country was to bum it, I didn't need train or bus fare, but I'd have to eat, so into the hock it went, along with the few pieces of furniture that were paid for, two suits and my working tux.

What we need to do is support the troops.

I got another Shirley Temple.

I'm sorry? It's not important that we get recognized.

What's important is that we recognize...

light.

My daughter's been watching a lot of Shirley Temple lately.

We tried on some Chaplin and some Keaton.

So you're doing all the old stuff.

Although Judy Garland's association with the role of Dorothy seems inescapable, she wasn't the studio's preference.

MGM executive Louis B. Mayer thought child star Shirley Temple was the perfect ticket to guarantee box office gold.

Meanwhile, Nicholas Schenk would only back the film if Temple were cast.

Fox wouldn't loan their 10-year-old star, and other names like Deanna Durbin and Bonita Granville were floated in the gossip columns.

Arthur Freed considered her his first and only true choice.

Garland at first resisted the part, convinced that it would set her career back 20 years.

Once on board, the team tried to push Garland into Shirley Temple territory.

Director George Cukor, in his brief tenure on the film, gave her the most important advice on the direction of the character.

Abby.

But that movie and was it Little Princess? The one where she's Shirley Temple? gets her dad gets lost in the war and she's an orphan and the orphanage just still keeps her but treats her like a servant now instead of

yeah i think that's a little yeah

it's just both those movies my sister loved growing up so we anytime they came on we were watching them so it's like

So Raj says, "Sheldon," like, "they don't have ice cream here," and Sheldon says, "They don't? Well, apparently these people and I differ greatly on the definition of a party."

I love that too, because I also love ice cream at a party, and I also love a Shirley Temple.

Yeah.

Like, it's weird.

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I just, like, I, you know, I, I've never been a huge soda person, though I have a lot of nostalgia for, like, root beer in general, but I don't know.

There's something about a Shirley Temple.

I love a root beer float.

Oh my God.

I looked forward to Shirley Temple and Abbott and Costello on Sundays.

Come on.

You know?