Shirley Temple: Secret Behind Her Smile 10 Surprising Things You Never Knew About Shirley Temple

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[Music] keep on watching until the end to find out why Shirley had to wear fake teeth as a child she earned three million dollars before hitting puberty Shirley Temple was born to make her parents rich her mother Gertrude already had given birth to several boys when she read an article on how much money a child actor can earn as the family was poor Gertrude decided to have a girl and make her an actress at all costs even if dirt road wasn't quite young anymore to increase the chances to conceive a baby girl Shirley's father was advised by his doctor to have his tonsils removed and he complied so after 12 years of marriage Gertrude's desire to get rich came true with the birth of Shirley Jane temple on April 23rd 1928 [Music] before becoming an adult Shirley Temple made over three million dollars from acting this may not seem like very much when considering the salaries of today's child actors but that is the equivalent of over fifty million dollars if you adjust the number for inflation she was only 17 when she married her first husband Shirley Temple was married twice in her life her first marriage was to John Agard jr. in 1945 he was a fellow actor but the astonishing thing is that he was 24 years old at the time temple was only 17 like many of her milestones she was quite young when she said I do too actor and soldier John agar two weeks after their marriage immediately after their honeymoon Shirley and John went out to a dinner party instead of dancing with Shirley all night however he danced with a tall slim blond and got quite drunk later on in their marriage John would be out all night drunk visiting bars [Music] but on their way back home that night surely coolly stated you know the problem with women like that is they don't have anything up here pointing to her head just down here gesturing down the couple had one daughter together Linda but split four years after their Union she always had the exact same number of curls temple was undoubtedly a great actor for such a young child but it didn't hurt that she usually had a head full of perfect girls when she stepped in front of the camera as you might expect giving a preteen such a meticulous hairdo was no small task her celebrated curls were a lot of hard work at least for her mother gertrude temple served as her daughter's hairdresser and styled temples golden locks in exactly 56 pin curls for every one of her movies temple reportedly didn't love the hairstyle she preferred the shorter tousled blocks that her hero amelia earhart sported temple did however understand the value of her trademark look in 1938 she visited the Roosevelts at their High Park Estate First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt asked the star to go swimming with her but temple declined because of my hair she was nearly assassinated in 1939 a woman tried to assassinate temple while she was singing silent night on a live radio show under the logic that the ten year old had swiped her daughter's soul and shooting her would unleash it [Music] she recalled the event during a 1998 news conference at the American Booksellers Association in Anaheim California according to Deseret News she said a woman pulled out a rather big gun and started to point it at her while she was singing during the radio appearance at CBS in Hollywood temple said at the time police grabbed the woman and removed her from the studio she was almost Dorothy before Judy Garland followed the yellow brick road Shirley Temple was considered to play Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz temple was under contract at 20th Century Fox and the studio would not release her to work for metro-goldwyn-mayer which produced Oz [Music] box had previously lent her to paramount where she appeared in such hits as Little Miss marker and now and forever and as a result was determined to keep their bankable star on a tight leash [Music] Arthur freed met with temple in 1938 to discuss the possibility of having her headline the picture but since temple was starting to lose her childish looks he allegedly said first we lose the baby fat rumors are that the studio heads didn't want to loan Shirley out to a competing company and that her singing voice just wasn't quite as impressive as Judy's she remains the youngest Oscar honoree in fact she was the first performer to win the Academy juvenile award in 1935 at the age of six [Music] by that time Shirley had appeared in over 20 short and full-length films [Music] Shirley Temple remains the youngest recipient of an Oscar at age six the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented her with the first juvenile Academy Award the accolades and honors continued throughout her life she [Music] received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 at 1500 Vine Street [Music] she was also recognized for her accomplishments with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1998 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2006 [Music] in addition Entertainment Weekly magazine voted her the 38th greatest movie star of all time and the American Film Institute ranked her as 18th among the 50th greatest screen legend [Music] surely had a secret surgery in 1972 Shirley Temple revealed that she had had a mastectomy it was a time when disclosing such personal information was taboo but temple opted to go public and held a news conference from her hospital room her candor about her illness and surgery helped to eliminate the stigma of breast cancer and encouraged women with symptoms to seek treatment an onscreen kiss caused a scandal Shirley played the title role in the 1942 flick miss Annie Rooney where her co-star Dickie Moore gave her a chaste smooch on the cheek it was the first time audience had seen the beloved young actress in a romantic setting so the innocent scene caused quite a stir she's protective of her cocktail there are a few things tastier for a kid than a non-alcoholic cocktail like the Shirley Temple a refreshing concoction of grenadine and lemon-lime soda garnished with a maraschino cherry what does the drink have to do with the child star though the Royal Hawaiian Resort in Waikiki one of temples favorite haunts at the height of her fame claim to have invented the drink and named it in honor of the hotel's frequent customer during the 1930s like most any famous foodstuff the Royal Hawaiians claim of creating the drink is debated though Hollywood's legendary Brown Derby restaurant maintained that it invented the drink during the same period while the drinks origins are murky Temple is clearly protective of the drink that bears her name in 1988 a California company tried to market Shirley teas sparkling soda the former child star took umbrage at what she felt was the misappropriation of her name and told the New York Times I will fight it like a tigress all a celebrity has is their name the soda maker argued that the name Shirley Temple had become a generic term for the drink but temple still took the company to court the second time she'd had to go through the legal system to squash a soda company's attempt to use her name [Music] the big smile surely flashed in all her movies during many of Shirley's films a baby tooth would be lost the big smile surely flashed in all her movies was many times endangered as the girl lost baby teeth quite often during filming [Music] every time one of her teeth came out her mother kept the tooth and drove the girl to a dentist to mold the lost tooth the replacement which surely must wear during filming otherwise her career would have had a toothless smile ending [Music] as we all know most of her scenes involved a large toothy smile and if a tooth was missing it would make a laughingstock of the film question of the week do you remember how many curls did she have exactly every time in her movies leave your answer in the comments and we will pick a winner in the next week what do you think of Shirley's life we are waiting for your comments drop us a suggestion for future videos 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Length: 18min 28sec (1108 seconds)
Published: Fri Apr 26 2019
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