Today, TCM will honor Mrs. Shirley Temple Black in a Movie Marathon of some of her very best films! Perhaps, this is a way to say "Happy Birthday" to her in advance, since her birthday is April 23rd!
April 13, 2011 - Movies on TCM:
Little Miss Marker
... 8:15 AM(A big-time gambler picks up a young girl as security on an IOU.)
The Poor Little Rich Girl
... 9:45 AM(A lost rich girl takes up with a pair of musical performers.)
Heidi
... 11:15 AM(An orphaned girl tends goats for her grandfather until she's sold to serve as a disabled girl's companion.)
The Little Princess
... 12:45 PM(When her father is reported dead in war, his daughter fights harsh conditions at her boarding school.)
Kathleen ... 2:30 PM
(A precocious little girl plays matchmaker between her widowed father and her new governess.)
Since You Went Away
... 4 PM(A woman copes with wartime rationing by taking in a colonel for extra money while her husband is away serving in World War II, but the war's turmoil appears minor in comparison when her daughter starts a relationship with the lodger's grandson.)
The Littlest Rebel
... 10 PM (A small and determined Southern girl befriends a Yankee soldier while protecting her Confederate father and even goes to Washington to see the President.)
"Happy Birthday"
(April 23rd!)
Mrs. Shirley Temple Black...
Thank you for the joy you've brought us all!
I absolutely adore Shirley Temple in
Heidi and The Little Princess...
and The Little Princess... but my favorite Shirley Temple Movie, as of Today,
It's just so sweet!
What is your favorite?
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