Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story

Dec 18, 2001

1h 35m

★ 6.7

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

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.

Genres

Drama

Family

TV Movie

Production Companies

Village Roadshow Pictures

Hartbreak Films

Radio Pictures

Walt Disney Television

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Cast

Shirley Temple

Ashley Rose Orr

Gertrude Temple

Connie Britton

George Temple

Colin Friels

Bill Bojangles Robinson

Hinton Battle

Sheehan

John Diedrich

Darryl F. Zanuck

Steven Vidler

Mrs. Pelucci

Zoe Bertram

Teen Shirley Temple

Emily Hart

Alexander Hall

Ben Mendelsohn

Amelia Earhart

Lucy Taylor

John Ford

Jerome Ehlers

Adolphe Menjou

Nicholas Hammond

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