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Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood
In the 1930s, Shirley Temple was heralded as \"America's sweetheart,\" and she remains the icon of wholesome American girlhood, but Temple's films strike many modern viewers as perverse.Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhoodexamines her early career in the context of the history of girlhood and considers how Temple's star image emerged out of the Victorian cult of the child.
Beginning her career in \"Baby Burlesks,\" short films where she played vamps and harlots, her biggest hits were marketed as romances between Temple and her adult male costars. Kristen Hatch helps modern audiences make sense of the erotic undercurrents that seem to run through these movies. Placing Temple's films in their historical context and reading them alongside earlier representations of girlhood in Victorian theater and silent film, Hatch shows how Shirley Temple emerged at the very moment that long standing beliefs about childhood innocence and sexuality were starting to change. Where we might now see a wholesome child in danger of adult corruption, earlier audiences saw Temple's films as demonstrations of the purifying power of childhood innocence.
Hatch examines the cultural history of the time to view Temple's performances in terms of sexuality, but in relation to changing views about gender, class, and race. Filled with new archival research,Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhoodenables us to appreciate the \"simpler times\" of Temple's stardom in all its thorny complexity.
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Would You Say No to Shirley Temple on Thanksgiving?
[...]I quietly asked one of my staff to find out whether her home was in a closed area and learned shortly that, in fact, it was.) He had told her that unless she could persuade the State Department to grant him an exception to visit her home he would very regretfully have to decline her generous offer. [...]if Shirley Temple could get him an exception, the Soviet Foreign Ministry could rebuff our effort to get a reciprocal visit to a closed area on the grounds that it had never asked us to allow the consul general's visit. Raymond Smith spent more than 30 years at the State Department, retiring from the Senior Foreign Service as a Minister Counselor and then serving as a senior advisor to the Department's Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund.
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Glamour in a Golden Age
Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, William Powell and Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, and Gary Cooper-Glamour in a Golden Agepresents original essays from eminent film scholars that analyze movie stars of the 1930s against the background of contemporary American cultural history.Stardom is approached as an effect of, and influence on, the particular historical and industrial contexts that enabled these actors and actresses to be discovered, featured in films, publicized, and to become recognized and admired-sometimes even notorious-parts of the cultural landscape. Using archival and popular material, including fan and mass market magazines, other promotional and publicity material, and of course films themselves, contributors also discuss other artists who were incredibly popular at the time, among them Ann Harding, Ruth Chatterton, Nancy Carroll, Kay Francis, and Constance Bennett.
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The American musical and the performance of personal identity
The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the material for performing such alternatives in the real world, through songs and the characters and attitudes those songs project.
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Temple of Youth
At the peak of her stardom (from ages six to twelve), she made twenty-two feature films, including twenty-one starring roles. [...]no other child star provides such a representative sample, and here I examine how three Shirley Temple films enable us to articulate the nature and complexities of child stardom. [...]a star has a persona when that off-screen person and on-screen image combine, and then are bolstered by the Hollywood publicity machine (King 177).
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Temple, Shirley
Shirley Temple \"was one of the most popular child stars in motion-picture history. She was known for her curly blond locks, her bright personality, and her spirited singing and tap dancing.\" (World Book Student) Read more about Shirley Temple.
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Hollywood's Terror Industry: Idealized Beauty and The Bluest Eye
Koch takes Toni Morison's novel, The Bluest Eye, and interrogates the way the cultural conception of beauty is produced and racially appropriated in a deeply discriminatory society: the Hollywood construction of ideal beauty in the 1930s and 40s in white actresses such as Shirley Temple and Greta Garbo and the societal pressure and cultural expectations for emulation of such ideal by the black women. In the failure of finding any alternative path and the ultimate surrender to the scarred perception of a racial impossible, Morrison argues, etches the hegemonic history of the American beauty that is produced and preserved through the cultural sanctity of the Hollywood classic film genre.
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Precocious charms
In Precocious Charms, Gaylyn Studlar examines how Hollywood presented female stars as young girls or girls on the verge of becoming women. Child stars are part of this study but so too are adult actresses who created motion picture masquerades of youthfulness. Studlar details how Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple, Deanna Durbin, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones, and Audrey Hepburn performed girlhood in their films. She charts the multifaceted processes that linked their juvenated star personas to a wide variety of cultural influences, ranging from Victorian sentimental art to New Look fashion, from nineteenth-century children's literature to post-World War II sexology, and from grand opera to 1930s radio comedy. By moving beyond the general category of \"woman,\" Precocious Charms leads to a new understanding of the complex pleasures Hollywood created for its audience during the half century when film stars were a major influence on America's cultural imagination.
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