Even today we still get the odd one turn up including the Tobey Maguire Seabiscuit of 2003. Horse racing has always been a wonderful backdrop for Hollywood since movies began. This is really a by the numbers horse racing entry with a bit of romance added in to keep the film a pleasant offering for audiences of the day. There are plenty of horse races to enjoy here including mixing some original black and white footage of the real deal into this technicolor offering. Think about it, Barry is probably the only actor that was ever capable of holding his own with Cheetah the chimp in the Tarzan series. This of course allows Barry the opportunity to play cupid allowing him plenty of opportunities to display his acting tricks. Shirley has trouble committing to Lon due to the death of her brother in a horse racing accident. Overpowering Shirley’s heart is Lon McCallister as the jockey who will be taking the reigns of the famed racing horse as he begins his run to prominence. A horse that he feels will overpower the racing world. It is here that Barry sees a young Seabiscuit. Temple is playing his niece who has come to America to continue her training as a nurse. They have arrived in Kentucky where Barry has been brought over from the old country to select top racing horses for further training. All rights reserved.What would film history be like without the charm of Barry Fitzgerald? Can’t you just see Barry polishing his Oscar saying “I shudder to even think such thoughts.”Īs Shirley Temple’s career was coming to a close she was teamed here with the supreme scene stealer in Fitzgerald. All Rights Reserved DIMPLES, Frank Morgan, Shirley Temple, 1936, father and daughter TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. ©20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, TM & Copyright LITTLE PRINCESS, THE, Shirley Temple, 1938, TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. THE LITTLEST REBEL, Bill Robinson (right) helping Shirley Temple answer fan letters from Movie Mirror magazine readers, on set, 1935. TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. WEE WILLIE WINKIE, from left: Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, 1937, ©20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright WEE WILLIE WINKIE, from left, Victor McLaglen, Shirley Temple, 1937, ©20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright WEE WILLIE WINKIE, from left, Victor McLaglen, Shirley Temple, 1937, ©20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright I'LL BE SEEING YOU, Shirley Temple, 1945 LITTLE PRINCESS, Shirley Temple, 1939, despondant at the staircase. WEE WILLIE WINKIE, Victor McLaglen, Shirley Temple, 1937, TM and Copyright 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved THAT HAGEN GIRL, Rory Calhoun, Shirley Temple, 1947 WEE WILLIE WINKIE, Victor McLaglen, Shirley Temple, 1937, TM and Copyright 20th Century Fox Film Corp. FORT APACHE, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, John Agar, Shirley Temple, 1948 THE LITTLEST REBEL, John Boles, Shirley Temple, 1935, TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. ADVENTURE IN BALTIMORE, Shirley Temple, John Agar, 1949, shadow on the wall SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES, Shirley Temple, 1939. ©20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, TM & Copyright I'LL BE SEEING YOU, Shirley Temple, Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, 1945 WEE WILLIE WINKIE, Cesar Romero, Shirley Temple, 1937 TM and Copyright 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved JUST AROUND THE CORNER, Shirley Temple, 1938, ©20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, TM & Copyright THIN ICE, Shirley Temple (left) visiting Sonja Henie, on set, 1937. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Photos THE LITTLE COLONEL, Evelyn Venable, Shirley Temple, 1935, TM and copyright ©Film Corp. However it would be her heyday years that would be best remembered, with Temple establishing a Hollywood idiom of the power of earnest innocence over cynicism, as well as making timeless the idea of a largely mythical "simpler America." Shirley Temple died at the age of 85 on February 10, 2014. She had mostly bowed out of show business by her adult years, but returned to the public eye under her married name of Shirley Temple Black in the late 1960s as a U.S. She tapped with legendary dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in four movies, made songs like "On the Good Ship Lollipop" and "Animal Crackers" pop cultural staples and was once credited by President Franklin Roosevelt for helping the United States through the bleak years of the Great Depression. Appearing in front of the camera at age four, she flashed her signature dimples or pout in more than 40 movies like "Curly Top" (1935) and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1937) before she was a teenager. Shirley Temple emblazoned herself on the American cinema as something both otherworldly and accessible, a tiny angel sent to assuage the ills of mortal adults, as well as an archetype of the adorable, precocious moppet every parent wanted.
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