Shirley Temple - dies aged 85 - R.I.P.

Another Hollywood legend passed away yesterday, but this time from natural causes. Bless her cute little cotton socks early silver screen legend Shirley Temple died at home aged 85, having retired from acting at the age of 21 to dedicate her later life to her family and then an active political career.

At her movie making prime from 1935 to 1938 she eclipsed just about all of the stars of her day including Bing Cosby, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford to win over the hearts, minds and adoration of a global movie going public with her song and dance routines, her cute as pie smile, and her cheeky winning ways on screen. With a string of hugely successful movies in her filmography and her place firmly planted in the Hollywood pantheon there has been no other child star like her since.

I will forever remember watching those Sunday afternoon matinees on the TV at home as a kid growing up myself, and wondering how so much talent could exist in someone so young. A short lived but brilliant acting career for which there is no equal.
Shirley Temple - Rest In Peace
1928-2014.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-