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Publisher's Comments (cont.)
Imagine that you're the Number One box office star, topping Hollywood greats such as Clark Gable and Mae West. You've won an honorary Academy Award, have put your footprints in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and become one of the world's most popular celebrities - all within a year of your first featured role in a major motion picture. Your image is reproduced on every conceivable object all over the world. Your salary is more in one week than most people make in three years. And you've only just celebrated your seventh birthday. Shirley Temple was a phenomenon, a child star whose talent and personality earned her a permanent place in Hollywood history. There was never a youngster quite like her before (or since) she skyrocketed to stardom in the 1930s. Graduating from a "baby star" in featurettes to bit parts in films, Shirley became a superstar after singing and dancing in one brief scene in her breakthrough film Stand Up and Cheer! (1934). The extraordinary six-year-old entertainer struck a chord with audiences all over the globe. Her career sparked a marketing sensation, spurring the production of anything and everything bearing her image-from dolls to tin whistles-in all corners of the globe, both authorized and unauthorized. Shirley's popularity has spanned all generations since the Depression era. In today's climate of family values, the morals inherent in Shirley's film characters present positive role models for this generation. The story lines are as fresh as they were when first released - in a similar time of uncertainty and war. Despite the decades-long interest in everything Temple, never before has there been a lavishly illustrated art book examining the phenomenon that was Shirley Temple as a child star in the 1930s. Many of the rare and unusual Shirley Temple collectibles have never been featured in print. Along with an informal, concise history of the childhood career of Ms. Temple (featuring film stills, many never-before-seen photographs, and personal snapshots of Shirley as well as several taken by her), this book is a visual treat befitting the magic of the most famous child star of all time, as well as the Golden Age of Hollywood.