A free archive of her public-domain pictures, presented in the order she made them.
The first Baby Burlesk. Set in a saloon in wartime France, with toddlers parodying adult war-romance pictures. Shirley Temple's screen debut at age 3.
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A toddler-cast spoof of frontier-wagon Westerns, complete with pint-sized cowboys, Indians and a runaway covered wagon.
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Shirley plays La Belle Diaperina, a saloon singer rescued from a cad. A small-fry send-up of Mae West / Gay Nineties melodrama.
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The toddlers play out a behind-the-scenes Hollywood story: a starlet's rise from the diaper-strewn casting couch to the big time.
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Shirley as a political vamp sent to corrupt an honest senator. Pre-Code political satire performed entirely by preschoolers.
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A spoof of jungle-explorer pictures. Shirley is 'Madame Cradlebait,' a missionary kidnapped by cannibal cubs and rescued by Diaperzan.
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Andy Clyde tries to save a small-town doughnut shop with a children's radio show. Shirley plays one of the singing kids; a step up from the Burlesks.
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A two-reel comedy about a teenage brother and sister and their kid-sister (Shirley) navigating school, beaux and family quarrels.
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Pre-Code Henry Hathaway Western from a Zane Grey novel. Randolph Scott and Esther Ralston headline; a very young Shirley Temple appears in a supporting role.
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Sonny Rogers wants a car; Shirley wants the puppies. A Frolics of Youth two-reeler released just as Shirley broke out at Fox.
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Walter Lang's Technicolor adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel — Shirley's first all-Technicolor feature, and one of her best-loved roles.
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Shirley's most famous Fox features remain owned by 20th Century Studios / Disney. Under US copyright law each film enters the public domain on January 1st of the year following its 95th anniversary of publication. Here's the countdown.
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