This is a paraphrase of a Paul Simon lyric, but I think it fits....
Shirley Temple...as a child, I really enjoyed watching her in her movies. I think that I know them all by heart. There will be a show on PBS about her this week and I wanted to tell everyone in the USA to look at their local listings, and try to watch it. (This might have been on earlier this year, she died in February, so I might have missed it then.) You might think of her as just a pretty child star but there is a real sense of intelligence behind that goodness that I think that everyone should admire, not just kids...
If you are from another country, then you can most likely see her movies or else clips of them on YouTube. She reminds me of many of the women that I have known in my life...just because they have great beauty and talent, their high intelligence is very often overlooked.
It is Shirley Temple's sweet nature that comes through for me. To be honest with you, that is really all I care about anyway...you can have the highest IQ of anyone and be a super model, maybe you are both, that's okay but I really only care about how nice you are. That's it.
Let me know if you see this TV show on PBS about Shirley Temple. I will let you know if they did a good job on it. Gee Whiz, you think they would call me up and consult with me the best way to present this, wouldn't you?
Leaving you with the video of Shirley Temple singing, "Oh My Goodness" and it is the one where her dolls come to life and she sings to them in all the accents of their countries. It might not be politically correct but I think you can sense the sincere respect that comes from this extraordinary young actress/singer/dancer.
My mom and sister and I watched all the Shirley Temple movies over and over and cried every time ... no matter how many times we had cried before. I will look for this program. From everything I have read about her, she was a wonderful person. I didn't really care for her acting when she reached her teens. Thanks for the heads up.
ReplyDeleteI hope that they will show some of her movies now, there's so much nasty stuff on TV, be nice to the kids to see something good.
DeleteEvery now and again Turner Classic Movies will run her movies back to back.
DeleteShirley Temple was indeed a woman to be admired. While she did not retire into seclusion but went to work as an ambassador (and not an honorary one but a real one) for our country and at the same time did not hide who she was. She had two extremely successful careers as well as a private family life. As with many child actors her father over-spent her earnings. She was honest about that and yet she had no bad feelings towards him. It seems that she was just as loving in real life as she was in her movies.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about her in February also, I should have mentioned it...you should go and read all the comments from that post! I just did and I really enjoyed reading what my followers had to say about her.
DeleteAs soon as I saw your headline of this post, I thought "Kay has posted about Shirley Temple before, hasn't she", and so I went and re-read your post from February of this year. What I wrote then in my comment is still true.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I meant to mention that I had written about her before, but I somehow left that out! (I have quite unwell for over three weeks now, but I hope I am getting better.)
DeleteI went back and read your comment and all the other comments too, and I enjoyed the comments more than I did my own post! HA! Just being real!
She was a wonderful actress and I agree, it's really is about how nice people are. Kindness always shines through.
ReplyDeleteKIndness...we are in great need of it, I believe!
DeleteShe was an amazing woman, smart, talented, lovely, and all around nice!
ReplyDeleteLike many women that you know, am I right? (Include yourself!)
DeleteShe does come across as a truly nice person, that's so rare and even rarer in Hollywood. I loved her movies when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteI adored her movies, such a wonderful talent. They are still good today.
DeleteI hope that it was a great show and that you really enjoyed it as your love for her shines through! xx
ReplyDeleteIt will be on here on Wednesday of this week. I better make a note of it, it is just like me to tell folks to watch something and then, I will the one to forget all about it! LOL
DeleteI am not one of those gorgeous, smart women...I just had to settle for gorgeous! HA!
Such an interesting woman! Talented and very intelligent.
ReplyDeleteShe certainly was something else again...she was unique. :)
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