Top 10 common mistakes people make about Shirley Temple

The Goodship Lollipop is in fact a airplane and not a ship!

NOPE! Despite what you have heard Shirley Temple remained very popular after 1939! After leaving 20th Century fox studios in 1940. Shirley Temple became one of the biggest radio stars of the 40s, with the public wanting hear the Darling teen. :) Shirley continued with films in the 1940s till she was grown-up.

Absolutely not!
Gertrude Temple was not a stage mother.The picture above tells all. You just can't fake it. You can see the love. Shirley was very close to her mummy. She was very much a mummy's girl.

Shirley Temple the biggest child star of the 30s.
The greatest child star of all time.
Despite what you may of heard. Shirley's parents did everything to give there wee girl a normal childhood. from riding a bike,playing with the kids in the neighborhood,going to the circus even going to get some ice cream. Shirley Temple had the most normal childhood, a child could have. Shirley's life was different from other children but her childhood was never stolen. Shirley had the happiest childhood anyone could ask for.

In The Little Princess 1939. Shirley Temple was required to do Ballet. They wanted shirley Temple on pointe shoes and dance. Shirley was given a private dance teacher. As time went by It became obvious Shirley would't be able to go on pointe. It takes years of training before you can go on pointe you need strong feet. It was unfair for shirley to have that pressure of going on pointe for the movie. If she had gone on pointe she could of seriously damaged her feet. As a beginner in Ballet, Shirley was wonderful and she had lovely arm work. Shirley Temple could do Ballet but not go on pointe. If shirley had been doing ballet the same amount of time she had been doing tap dancing it would be a different story.

NOT SHIRLEY TEMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The song was sung by Gayla Peevey.

Yes! There is a reason why Shirley was so talented,gifted and why there has not been any child star like her since. as a child she had a whopping I.Q of 155! and a photogenic Memory. Shirley's acting and dancing talent came very natural to her. Everything Shirley did she excelled at. Including doing complicated adult tap numbers at 8 years old.

In Shirley's hit movie Sussanah Of The Mounties 1939. Shirley takes Marijuana. I can tell you that Shirley did not actually smoke Marijuana, as she explains in her book Childstar.

To This very day people continue to be confused on that matter of Shirley's age. Shirley was born in 1928 but in 1934 20th century fox changed her birth certificate, making her 1 year younger to prolong her childhood. Shirley never looked her age as a child so people still get mixed up on how old shirley temple is in photos.

There had been many kidnap threats to shirley. In 1939 there was a assassination attempt. A woman held a gun to shirley wanting to kill her. Thankfully nothing serious happened to shirley.