For the first time, Shirley Temple Black

-the quintessential child star of the 30s

and 40s-tells in her own words the col-

orful story of her life as an actress. In this

long-awaited autobiography, Shirley s le-

gions of admirers will learn that for the

captivating girl who seemed to have ev-

erything, reality was often a far cry from

the ~Good Ship Lollipop."

Born in 1928 in southern California,

Shirley Temple was extraordinary fi om

the start. At the age of three, she began

acting, often in exploitive films directed

and produced by some abusive studio ex-

ecutives. But Shirley s talent and perse-

verance could not be thwarted, and she

soon entered a fruitful relationship with

Twentieth Century-Fox. Before long she

was making films with the top stars of

the day, including Gary Cooper, Carole

Lombard, Lionel Barrymore, Joel Me-

Crea, Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Jo-

seph Cotten, Claudette Colbert, and Bill

"Bojangles" Robinson.

There was something magical about

Shirley Temple that cheered the soul of

America during the Depression. She was

the number one movie star of the nation

for four years in a row, from 1935

through 1938. Her winsome spirit

charmed everyone from President and

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to FBI direc-

tor J. Edgar Hoover and aviatrix Amelia

Earhart- as did her accomplished perfor-

mances in more than forty films, such

classics as Stand Up and Cheer, Baby

Take a Bow, Bright Eyes (in which she

sang "On the Good Ship Lollipop"), Curly

Top, The Littlest Rebel, Wee Willie

Winkle and many others. As a teenager,

Shirley continued to make movies under

the ae~s of MGM and David 0. Sehnick.