# Shirley Temple filmography

Shirley Temple (1928–2014) was an American child actress, dancer, and singer who began her film career in 1931, and continued successfully through 1949. When Educational Pictures director Charles Lamont scouted Meglan Dancing School for prospective talent, three-year-old student Temple hid behind the piano. Lamont spotted her and immediately decided she was the one he was looking for. Starting at $10 a day, she was eventually under contract for $50 per film. The production company generated its Baby Burlesks one-reeler film short satires of Hollywood films in 1931–1933, produced by Jack Hays and directed by Lamont. Temple made eight Baby Burlesks films, and 10 other short films, before being signed to star in feature-length motion pictures.
The role that launched her feature film career was a short song-and-dance sequence in the 1934 movie Stand Up and Cheer! for Fox Film, with James Dunn as her father. Her performance impressed studio executives so much that they immediately cast the duo in a follow-up film, Baby Take a Bow, with Temple again playing Dunn's daughter. Following the release of that film, Temple's parents negotiated two 7-year Fox contracts, one for Shirley as the performer, and the other for her mother as her guardian. Her parents had stipulations inserted to protect their daughter's privacy, while Fox retained control of all her public appearances. The bulk of the financial recompense went into revocable trusts. Later that same year, the film Bright Eyes was written as a starring vehicle for Temple, teaming her once again with Dunn. In this film, Temple sang the song most identified with her: "On the Good Ship Lollipop".
In addition to Dunn, Temple danced in her films with some of the most famous and accomplished entertainers of her era: Buddy Ebsen, Jack Haley, Alice Faye, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Charlotte Greenwood, and Jack Oakie. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was her favorite partner. "It was kind of a magic between us", she later reminisced, and said he taught her how to execute her dance moves by syncing with the rhythm of the music, as opposed to watching her steps. In 1935's The Little Colonel, the first of their four films together, they made history as the first on screen interracial dancing partners.
Temple's films, made for between $400,000 and $700,000 each, earned millions of dollars in gross receipts in the United States and Canada. Her films ranked number-one at the box office in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1938. The success of her films was also credited with saving her studio, 20th Century Fox, from bankruptcy during the Great Depression.
At the 7th Academy Awards in 1935, Temple was honored with the first Academy Juvenile Award. That same year, her hand prints and bare foot prints were immortalized in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. At previous hand and foot print ceremonies, other celebrities traditionally left hand and shoe prints in the cement. The bare feet distraction was her idea to divert attention away from a gap in her smile left by a baby tooth that had fallen out. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960. Following the end of her film career, Temple had a two-season run of Shirley Temple's Storybook anthology on the NBC television network.
During the years 1974–1989, she served in the United States diplomatic corps under her married name of Shirley Temple Black.

## Features

| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
| The Red-Haired Alibi | 1932 | Gloria Shelton | |
| Out All Night | 1933 | Child | Credited as Shirley Jane Temple |
| To the Last Man | 1933 | Mary Stanley | Uncredited |
| Carolina | 1934 | Joan Connelly | Scenes cut |
| As the Earth Turns | 1934 | Child | Uncredited |
| Stand Up and Cheer! | 1934 | Shirley Dugan | Dance partner: James Dunn |
| Baby Take a Bow | 1934 | Shirley Ellison | Dance partner: James Dunn |
| Bright Eyes | 1934 | Shirley Blake | Dance partner: James Dunn |
| Change of Heart | 1934 | Shirley (girl on airplane) | Uncredited |
| Little Miss Marker | 1934 | Marthy "Marky" Jane | |
| Now I'll Tell | 1934 | Mary Doran | Preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive |
| Now and Forever | 1934 | Penelope "Penny" Day | |
| George White's Scandals | 1934 | Daughter of Scandal Girl | |
| The Little Colonel | 1935 | Lloyd Sherman | Dance partner: Bill Robinson |
| Our Little Girl | 1935 | Molly Middleton | |
| Curly Top | 1935 | Elizabeth Blair | |
| The Littlest Rebel | 1935 | Virginia "Virgie"' Cary | Dance partner: Bill Robinson |
| Captain January | 1936 | Helen "Star" Mason | Dance partner: Buddy Ebsen |
| Poor Little Rich Girl | 1936 | Barbara Barry | Dance partners: Jack Haley and Alice Faye |
| Dimples | 1936 | Sylvia "Dimples" Dolores Appleby | |
| Stowaway | 1936 | Barbara "Ching-Ching" Stewart | |
| Wee Willie Winkie | 1937 | Priscilla "Winkie" Williams | |
| Heidi | 1937 | Heidi Kramer | |
| Ali Baba Goes to Town | 1937 | Herself | Uncredited cameo |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | 1938 | Rebecca Winstead | Dance partner: Bill Robinson |
| Little Miss Broadway | 1938 | Betsy Brown Shea | Dance partners: George Murphy |
| Just Around the Corner | 1938 | Penny Hale | Dance partner: Bill Robinson |
| The Little Princess | 1939 | Sara Crewe | |
| Susannah of the Mounties | 1939 | Susannah "Sue" Sheldon | |
| The Blue Bird | 1940 | Mytyl | |
| Young People | 1940 | Wendy Ballantine | Dance partners: Charlotte Greenwood and Jack Oakie |
| Kathleen | 1941 | Kathleen Davis | |
| Miss Annie Rooney | 1942 | Annie Rooney | |
| Since You Went Away | 1944 | Bridget "Brig" Hilton | |
| I'll Be Seeing You | 1944 | Barbara Marshall | |
| Kiss and Tell | 1945 | Corliss Archer | |
| Honeymoon | 1947 | Barbara Olmstead | |
| The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | 1947 | Susan | Released in the UK as Bachelor Knight |
| That Hagen Girl | 1947 | Mary Hagen | |
| Fort Apache | 1948 | Philadelphia Thursday | |
| Mr. Belvedere Goes to College | 1949 | Ellen Baker | |
| Adventure in Baltimore | 1949 | Dinah Sheldon | |
| The Story of Seabiscuit | 1949 | Margaret O'Hara Knowles | |
| A Kiss for Corliss | 1949 | Corliss Archer | |

## Baby Burlesks

Baby Burlesks credits of Shirley Temple :
| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
| Runt Page | 1931 | Lulu Parsnips | uncredited |
| War Babies | 1932 | Charmaine | |
| The Pie-Covered Wagon | 1932 | Shirley | |
| Glad Rags to Riches | 1932 | Nell/La Belle Diaperina | |
| Kid in Hollywood | 1932 | Morelegs Sweettrick | |
| The Kid's Last Fight | 1932 | Shirley | |
| Kid 'in' Africa | 1932 | Madame Cradlebait | |
| Polly Tix in Washington | 1933 | Polly Tix | |

## Other short films

Other short film credits of Shirley Temple :
| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
| Dora's Dunking Doughnuts | 1933 | Shirley | Educational Pictures, Inc. |
| Merrily Yours | 1933 | Mary Lou Rogers | |
| What's to Do? | 1933 | Mary Lou Rogers | |
| Pardon My Pups | 1934 | Mary Lou Rogers | |
| Managed Money | 1934 | Mary Lou Rogers | |
| Mandalay | 1934 | | |
| The Hollywood Gad-About | 1934 | Herself | Educational Films, Inc. |
| Our Girl Shirley | 1942 | Herself | Re-issue combined Managed Money and Pardon My Pups |
| American Creed | 1946 | Herself | |