Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story

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Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story

"Before Britney, before Madonna ... another girl danced her way to stardom."

2001

1h 35m

6.7(13 votes)

Drama

Family

Overview

As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts of moviegoers around the world.

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31 members

Acting

Ashley Rose Orr

Shirley Temple

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Connie Britton

Gertrude Temple

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Colin Friels

George Temple

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Hinton Battle

Bill Bojangles Robinson

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John Diedrich

Sheehan

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Steven Vidler

Darryl F. Zanuck

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Zoe Bertram

Mrs. Pelucci

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Emily Hart

Teen Shirley Temple

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Ben Mendelsohn

Alexander Hall

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Lucy Taylor

Amelia Earhart

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Jerome Ehlers

John Ford

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Nicholas Hammond

Adolphe Menjou

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Mark Mitchell

Griff

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Joe Petruzzi

David O. Selznick

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Nathan Phillips

Hugh

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Randall Berger

Bank President

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Frank Gallacher

Schenk

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William Gluth

Lionel Barrymore

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Paul Craig

Simon Lee

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Tony Farrell

Henry Hathaway

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Daniel Gostolow

Dancer

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Don Halbert

Wright

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Ron Kamien

Victor McLaglen

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Brian Lipson

Cobb

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John O'May

Louis B. Mayer

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Shane McNamara

Dr. Madsen

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Russell Menzies

Dancer

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Stewart Morritt

B.P. Schulberg

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Jessica Napier

Klammie

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Bruce Roberts

Gorney

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Kenneth Radley

Adolph Zukor

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