Curly Top
Curly Top (1935) starring Shirley Temple
Wealthy businessman adopts Curly Top and her lovely older sister. But then, he begins to fall in love with the older sister! So then …
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The Little Princess
The Little Princess is the classic Shirley Temple film where a little girl goes from riches to rags. She searches for her father, reported missing during the Second Boer War.
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Our Little Girl
Our Little Girl (1935) starring Shirley Temple, Joel McCrea,
In Our Little Girl, a troubled child fears that she’s responsible for her parents’ broken marriage. She tries to fix things by running away. Can a kindly tramp help set things right?
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple
Synopsis of The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
In The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a classic screwball comedy. Through no fault of his own, artist and lady’s man Richard Nugent finds a teenage girl curled on his sofa. The teen’s sister is a judge who “sentences” thunderstruck Richard to date the girl until her schoolgirl crush wanes. Circumstances aren’t kind to Richard. But they certainly are hilarious!
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I’ll Be Seeing You
I’ll Be Seeing You (1944) starring Joseph Cotten, Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple
In short, I‘ll Be Seeing You is a wonderful film. It’s set towards the end of World War II. A veteran (played very well by Joseph Cotten) is suffering from what we would now call PTSD. He’s jumping at any sound, and thinks that he’s likely to be attacked at any moment. His doctors at the VA are letting him out from the psych ward …. In order to see how well he’s able to function in normal society. On his train ride, he meets a beautiful young lady (played very well by Ginger Rogers). She’s a lady who’s also out on furlough — from prison.
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