Shirley Temple’s films brought hope to Americans during the country’s worst economic recessions, the Great Depression. Her optimistic films often featured themes of joy and provided an escape from difficult times. Shirley embodied the cheer, trust, courage and love that adults and children needed in an especially anxious decade. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is said to have kept the public morale high by claiming, “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right”.
The President praised her performances, saying, “It is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles.”
Shirley made more than twenty feature films in the 1930s, and in each one her task was emotional healing. “The Littlest Rebel” 1935. Shirley dancing with the fabulous, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. “We held hands and I learned to dance from Bill by listening, not looking at the feet,” she said. “It was kind of a magic between us.”-Shirley Temple . . .
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