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Shirley Temple-Black
1928-2014 |
To this day, I remember very well the scene with a young Shirley
Temple bouncing around a dining room full of kids, singing, “Animal crackers in
my soup. Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop.” You see, my grandmother loved
Shirley Temple and, on more than one occasion, forced me and my cousins to
watch her films; although I can’t say that we ever really minded watching them.
Today, in fact, I’m rather glad I can say that I’ve seen a Shirley Temple film
or two, even though I can only remember one scene from one movie. Shirley
Temple-Black is an American legend, and rightly so.
It has been said by former child actor Darryl Hickman that “Shirley’s
gift to show business, to the United States, and to the movie-going public was
a revelation of the creativity and the sense of joy and fun of childhood that
is in each of us.” He then added, “I don’t think any child ever did that better
than Shirley Temple.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt was even noted for
saying, “As long as we have Shirley Temple, we’ll be alright.”
Shirley Temple, with her famous curls, brought hope to American
movie-goers during the Great Depression. She later went on to serve her country
as United States Ambassador to Ghana, Chief of Protocol of the United States,
and, in 1989, she became the twenty-seventh United States Ambassador to
Czechoslovakia. For over eighty years, Shirley Temple-Black served her country
well.

Sadly, the lady once known as “America’s little darling” is
no longer with us. Shirley Temple-Black passed away Monday night at the age of
eighty-five. She is one of those very few Hollywood celebrities that we can say
spent her life well, leaving this world with no known scandal attached to her
name. As her mother often encouraged her to do, Shirley Temple truly sparkled.
It is for that reason that I plan on sharing Shirley’s movies with my children,
and I pray you will do the same.
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