38Shirley Temple was back and black.
Heidi played on the screen in the Tea-Pea, where the new generation of younger girls barely knew the child starlet who once wore ribbons and frilly little pinafores.
Her beaming smile, her maturity, her swaying hips, her ability to enchant even middle-aged men… Cecil scanned the babes holding their dolls at the Tea-Pea. What was a ten-year-old like in 1930? Certainly different than an iPhone-wielding youngster of today.
In Heidi, Shirley played a bouncy child, drifting through the Swiss Alps, hand in hand with a creepy old man.
In Wee Willie Winkie, Shirley played a bouncy child, drifting through India with a creepy male prisoner.
In Little Miss Marker, she played a bouncy child, drifting through horse racing tracks with a creepy male librarian.
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