Shirley Temple
Gets Older and
Hollywood Panics...

Shirley Temple (1928 – 2014) was by no means at her box-office peak when this article was penned (her most popular period would span the years 1936 through 1938), but the institution that she had become by 1935 had already built many second homes and an assorted number of mansions for more than a few studio executives and mogul types. When the news hit the palmy, sun-soaked boulevards of Hollywood that she had lost her first baby tooth, there was hysteria!

“That the end now shows unmistakable signs of beginning. That first baby tooth fell to the studio floor with a crash heard ’round the world…. Yet, even as the nabobs of Fox stood about applauding and cooing, the cold hand of fear must have gripped their kindly hearts.”

Click here to read a 1939 profile of Shirley Temple.

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