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Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story backdrop

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Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001)

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

6.8(14)1h 35mDecember 18, 2001

Drama Family TV Movie

Nadia Tass

Director

Joe Wiesenfeld

Writer

Rate

Diary

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.

Cast

Ashley Rose Orr

Shirley Temple

Connie Britton

Gertrude Temple

Colin Friels

George Temple

Hinton Battle

Bill Bojangles Robinson

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story · Cinemalant

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John Diedrich

Sheehan

Steven Vidler

Darryl F. Zanuck

Zoe Bertram

Mrs. Pelucci

Ben Mendelsohn

Alexander Hall

Jerome Ehlers

John Ford

Nicholas Hammond

Adolphe Menjou

Mark Mitchell

Griff

Joe Petruzzi

David O. Selznick

Nathan Phillips

Hugh

Randall Berger

Bank President

Frank Gallacher

Schenk

Paul Craig

Simon Lee

Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: December 18, 2001
Production: Village Roadshow Pictures, Hartbreak Films, Radio Pictures, Walt Disney Television
Country: Australia, United States of America

Keywords

tap dancingcontractchild starwoman directoramelia earhart1930smovie mogul

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