superwholockthecomic: LET ME TELL YOU A THING ABOUT SHIRLEY TEMPLE Not only did this ABSURDLY ADORAB
superwholockthecomic:LET ME TELL YOU A THING ABOUT SHIRLEY TEMPLENot only did this ABSURDLY ADORABLE little superstar pretty much singlehandedly save Fox and the movie industry during the Great Depression, she alsowas one of the first (possibly the first) white actress to hold hands with a black man on screen as half of the first interracial dance couple on screen.was largely responsible for making breast cancer okay to talk about after she had a press conference about her own mastectomybecame president of the Multiple Sclerosis Society and co-founded the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, because her brother had MSwas the first female Chief of Protocol in US Government historyserved as a US ambassador during the fall of Communism and was pretty much an all around international BADASSAnd according to her husband, she was always true to herself. “Over 38 years I have participated in her life 24 hours a day through thick and thin, traumatic situations, exultant situations, and I feel she has only one personality. She would be catastrophic for the psychiatric profession. You can wake her up in the middle of the night and she has the same personality everybody knows. What everybody has seen for 60 years is the bedrock.” (x)Shirley Temple is hands down the most legendary child star of all time and she grew up to be a total BAMF. Rest in peace, Curly Top.photo credit: this awesome blog -- source link
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