Things to heft, feel and take away gave an air of permanence to what happened.” But for Black Jr and his sisters, Shirley Temple was not an adorable kid charming the masses - she was a mom. In her autobiography, Child Star, Temple wrote, “These tangible mementos were important far more than the event.
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Included are the signatures of most movie stars of the 30s, as well as President Franklin D Roosevelt, who famously assuaged a Depression-weary public, saying: “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.” Temple’s seven autograph books are for sale, with the best of them estimated at $6,000 to $8,000. And they sent it home to her and she drove it around her driveway and lost interest because it was no fun anymore.” And they eventually put a governor on it to slow it down. But because it was an unmuffled engine, it disrupted production. “She ran into a publicist, not very hard, but tore his pant leg. “She tore around the lot at 35 miles per hour,” says her son, Charles Black, Jr. In fact, a child-sized racing car with a lawnmower engine given to her by Robinson is likely to be a favorite among buyers, with a suggested price of $10,000. Temple and Robinson went on to make three more movies together and became close friends. But theatre owners said, we won’t show it unless you delete the scene.” In fact, it was just a pair of dancers steadying each other, with Robinson (who was in his 50s), signaling Temple (who was six), by squeezing her hand. It was really a moment that changed history, a little white girl holding a black man’s hand,” notes Holbrook. “It was the first time ever an interracial couple danced together on film. The year 1935 marked her first pairing with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, a tap dancer and vaudevillian who, in a famous scene, teaches her his signature stair dance. By the time she was four, she had a contract with Educational Pictures in their Baby Burlesk one-reelers, and a year later she was starring in 20th Century Fox’s Stand Up and Cheer, earning $150 per week.
Her statuette, which will be housed in the Academy Museum, was the final presentation of the night, at which point Temple turned to her mother, Gertrude, and asked, “Can we go home now?” By then she was eight, an industry veteran since Gertrude entered her in Meglin’s Dance School (where Judy Garland was a classmate), at the age of three. That song is from the 1934 movie Bright Eyes which, along with Little Miss Marker, made Temple the first child to receive an Oscar.
Temple’s famous polka-dot dress from Stand Up and Cheer. If that’s a little steep for you, there’s a teddy bear for $500, or crayon drawings signed by the artist herself starting at $300. Over 550 items will come to the block, including hundreds of dolls, toys and other objects, and nearly100 film costumes, including her polka dot dress from her 1934 breakout film, Stand Up and Cheer, with a suggested price of $20,000. Handling the sale for Temple’s heirs – Charles Black Jr and his half-sister Linda Susan Agar – is Theriault’s auction house, a leader in childhood memorabilia, controlling 70% of the global auction market for dolls. A year and a half after she succumbed to emphysema at the age of 85, the screen legend’s costumes, dolls and childhood memorabilia go on auction in Missouri’s Little Theatre, Kansas City on 14 July. Only one person could make such fantastical claims: Shirley Temple. She counted J Edgar Hoover as a close friend from the time she became the youngest person ever to win an Oscar, right through her failed run for Congress. Around the time Graham Greene was sued for commenting on her “desirable little body”, she became the object of a papal inspection to determine if she was a dwarf.
She once shot Eleanor Roosevelt in the backside with a slingshot, and she was the first white girl to dance with a black man in the movies.
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