Shirley Temple died today

[ianrauk]

Bless here... another part of my youth gone.
She used to be a constant on TV in my youth in the late 60's early 70's.

Apparently she retired from films at the age of 21 in 1950.

 

[swee'pea99]

YeGods - she was still alive? Respect. And RIP.

 

[Beebo]

Bless here... another part of my youth gone.

How old are you? She was doing her stuff in the 1930's!
As Whoopie Goldberg tweeted, The Goodship Lollypop has finally sailed with Shirely aboard.

 

[ianrauk]

How old are you? She was doing her stuff in the 1930's!
As Whoopie Goldberg tweeted, The Goodship Lollypop has finally sailed with Shirely aboard.

As my original post said, she retired in 1950, but as part of my youth in the 60's and 70's, her films were always on TV. Especially Saturday mornings.

 

[simon the viking]

YeGods - she was still alive? Respect. And RIP.

That's what I thought clearly fell in to the category "people I thought were already dead"

R.I.P though all the same

 

[rich p]

On The Good Ship Lollipopped her clogs

 

[MontyVeda]

YeGods - she was still alive? Respect. And RIP.

for as long as i've known who she is, I've assumed she'd been long gone... so this news did come as a genuine shock

 

[Yellow Fang]

Didn't they call her, 'One Take Shirley' because she never fluffed her lines?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

As my original post said, she retired in 1950, but as part of my youth in the 60's and 70's, her films were always on TV. Especially Saturday mornings.

They were.
And Tarzan.
And Abbot and Costello.
And Laurel and Hardy.
And "Road to..." movies with Crosby, Hope and Lamour.

 

[MontyVeda]

Oh dear, how sad.

I must say that she did give me the creeps a little as a child star......however, in later life she did some great things.

i have a very vague memory of one on the Florida Keys with a teenage Shirley Temple... what was that? ... or am i thinking of Elvis?

 

[MontyVeda]

EARWORM

 

[ColinJ]

Oh dear, how sad.

I know what you mean, but I think she had a pretty good, long life. She died of natural causes at the age of 85 with her family beside her. You can't really ask for much more than that.

 

[Accy cyclist]

The first and(apart from her death being announced on Tuesday)last time i heard of Shirley Temple was when she was interviewed by Michael Parkinson in July 1972.
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2gaSI07vdI
I always remember this because we were on holiday in the Isle Of Man at the time. Oh and i remember Alf Garnett sometimes calling his "Scouse git" son in law Shirley Temple.

 

[Justiffa]

RIP