 | Heidi
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.99 Based on the classic story, this film features Shirley in the title role as she fights to return to her grandfather in the mountains.
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 | Curly Top (Colorized / Black and White)
Buy used from: $2.62 Curly sings and dances her way into her adoptive father's heart, ensuring a secure future for her and her sister.
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 | Little Miss Broadway
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.00 Toe-tapping musical numbers highlight this story of an orphan who helps save her adoptive parents' hotel.
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 | Baby Takes a Bow
Buy used from: $6.53 A stolen necklace and an ex-convict father play major roles in this film, one of the only ones in which Shirley doesn't play an orphan!
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 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.74 Rebecca must outwit her old Aunt Miranda in order to appear on a radio program and become a star.
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 | Bright Eyes
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.08 Shirley becomes the centre of a custody battle in this early Temple flick.
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 | Dimples
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.00 Singing and dancing on the streets of New York, Dimples must keep her dishonest grandfather on the straight and narrow.
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 | The Little Colonel
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $9.35 Based on the classic story, little Lloyd Sherman mends a rift between her mother and her grandfather in the South.
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 | The Littlest Rebel
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.62 Shirley plays Virgie, the daughter of a Confederate soldier. When her father is accused of being a spy, she goes to plead with President Lincoln to spare her father's life!
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 | Captain January
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.43 Star, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, wants to stay with her adoptive father, the old lighthouse keeper. But the new truant officer has other plans.
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 | Just Around the Corner
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.75 Penny makes the best of a bad situation when her architect father is forced to take a job as an electrician.
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 | Susannah of the Mounties
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.56 As the lone survivor of an Indian massacre, Susannah helps secure a lasting peace between the Indians and the Mounties in 1880s Saskatchewan.
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 | Blue Bird
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $10.39 Not the best Shirley Temple vehicle, but it's interesting to watch her play a rather mean-spirited character.
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 | The Little Princess
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.40 Filmed in colour, this is one of the nicest Shirley Temple movies. Though it differs from the original book, it's still a cute story.
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 | Stand Up and Cheer!
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.37 This is one very strange movie. Shirley only appears briefly, but this was the film that really launched her career. You can see why! She was an adorable child.
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 | Stowaway (1936)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $9.52 Shirley plays an orphan of missionaries in China who wins the heart of a playboy on a cruise ship after stowing away in his car.
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 | Young People
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.41 Shirley begins to show her age in this rather formulaic film from 1940. The catchy songs will appeal to Shirley Temple fans, though.
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 | Wee Willie Winkie
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $9.00 Shirley plays the title role in this Rudyard Kipling story about a young child who brings about a lasting peace between the British army and a ruthless warlord in India. There's very little song and dance in this one, but the story and characters are enough to make this an entertaining film.
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 | Shirley Temple - Little Darling Pack (Little Miss Marker/Now and Forever/The Runt Page)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.55 I haven't seen this edition, but I have seen both "Little Miss Marker" and "Now and Forever". Both showcase Shirley's considerable acting talent at the tender age of six.
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 | Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
Buy new: $17.99 An interesting biography that details the life of Shirley Temple.
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 | Child Star - The Shirley Temple Story
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.20 This recent biopic chronicles the life of the child star from her birth to her teenage years. *Note: Shirley Temple herself does not appear in this film.
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 | Child Star by Shirley Temple Black
Buy used from: $0.01 Hear the story from Shirley Temple herself! A fascinating glimpse into the life of a child star.
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 | Shirley Temple: A Pictorial History of the World's Greatest Child Star (Applause Books) by Rita Dubas
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $13.46 Beautiful photos and a fresh new biography make this one of the best Shirley Temple books to come out in recent years.
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