The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America Read Free Page A

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    child labor:
    emotional toll of, 234–35
    laws on, 4, 54, 58–59, 156, 218, 234
    Child Life , 125
    child psychology, 136
    child rearing:
    Gertrude Temple perceived as expert in, 222–23, 225–26
    of “new type of child,” 137, 199–200
    “normality” concept in, 217
    ST as model for, 125–26
    Childs, Marquis, 257 n
    Child Star (S. T. Black), 224, 233
    China, ST’s fame in, 115
    Christmas:
    merchandising at, 143
    in ST film formula, 83–85, 190
    Cinema and Theater , 133
    Civil War, U.S., 19, 99, 103–5, 244
    Clare, Sidney, 85
    Cobb, Irwin S., 88
    Cocoanut Grove, 270 n
    Coe, Richard, 197
    Cokain, Ralph, 166
    Colbert, Claudette, 121
    Cold War, 243, 244
    Colescott, Robert, 106
    Collins, Eddie, 190
    Columbia Pictures, 65
    “Come and Get Your Happiness,” 176
    Commerce Department, U.S., 66–67
    Communists, 71, 238, 243
    Congress, U.S.:
    in FDR’s recovery strategy, 31, 32, 37
    Hoover’s address to, 11
    consumer envy, 147
    consumerism, 78, 83, 114–15, 126
    by children, 4, 135–49, 199–200, 230, 233, 235–36
    cuteness factor in, 157
    Hollywood and, 133–38
    imitation of ST in, 133–41
    international, 147–48
    postwar dominance of, 243
    ST products in, 5, 82, 83, 120, 126, 131, 137, 138, 141–48, 143 , 145 , 200, 229, 235
    see also merchandising
    Coogan, Jackie, 53, 134–35, 134 , 227, 230
    financial exploitation of, 231–32
    Coogan Act (Child Actors Bill), 232
    Coomer, Dorothy, 130–31
    Cooper, Gary, 161, 218, 238
    Cooper, George, 93
    Cotton Club Parade, 270 n
    Coughlin, Charles, 44
    Covarrubias, Miguel, 75
    Crabtree, Mary Ann and Lotta, 224
    Crosby, Bing, 38, 55–56, 210
    Crowther, Bosley, 197, 238–39
    Cuba, ST look-alike contest in, 124–25
    Cukor, George, 167
    Curly Top , 152, 153, 161, 162, 171, 178, 279 n
    Curtis, Charles, 14
    Curtis Publishing, 138
    Custen, George F., 278 n
    cuteness, 156–65
    of ST, 157–58, 163–64, 171, 176–78, 186, 198, 205
    Czechoslovakia, 244
    Daily Telegraph , 124, 124
    “Dark Cloud of Joy,” 93, 111
    daughters:
    ST as idealized image of, 118–19, 125–26
    transformed view of, 5
    David Copperfield , 167, 214, 231, 241
    Davis, Joan, 179
    Dell, Dorothy, 77
    Del Rio, Dolores, 49–50
    Democratic Party, 11, 20, 23, 26, 38, 194
    DeSylva, Buddy, 153
    Detroit, Mich., 20
    Dewey, John, 136
    Dickens, Charles, 241
    Dietrich, Marlene, 50, 210
    Dillon, Frank, 148–49
    Dimples , 163–66, 173, 266 n , 268 n
    Dionne quintuplets, 157
    Disney, Walt, 186
    “Dixie,” 103
    dolls:
    celebrity, 148
    Shirley Temple, 5, 82, 120, 126, 138, 141–48, 143 , 145
    Donaldson, Ted, 235
    Doorway to Hell , 153
    Douglas, Melvyn, 40
    Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 111
    Dunn, James, 56 , 57, 58 , 80–81, 83
    Durbin, Deanna, 133, 137, 148, 198
    Dwan, Allan, 170–71, 196, 224–25
    Ebsen, Buddy, 161
    economy:
    banking crises in, 8, 12–13, 36–37, 46, 51
    1920s boom in, 9–10, 19
    see also Great Depression
    Educational Films Corporation, 47–48, 55, 74, 141, 219, 259 n
    Edward VIII, king of United Kingdom, 1
    Edwards, Anne, 259 n
    “egalitarian distinction,” 221–22
    Einstein, Albert, 116
    Eisenhower, Dwight D., 242, 243
    elections, U.S.:
    of 1920, 23
    of 1928, 9–11, 18, 20, 26
    of 1930, 26
    of 1932, 16, 19–20, 26–30, 55–56, 90
    of 1936, 43
    of 1940, 41
    Emergency Banking Act, 36
    Ethel Meglin’s dance studio, 46–47, 56, 57, 93, 219
    Ettlinger, Don, 194
    Evening Herald , 132
    Evergreens Cemetery, 112
    Fair, J. A., 170
    Fairbanks, Douglas, 196, 203
    Fair Labor Standards Act (1938), 59
    Faithless , 70
    fan clubs, 115
    fan magazines, 5, 121–23, 126, 219, 221, 233
    see also specific magazines
    fan mail, 204–6
    fans:
    and “egalitarian distinction,” 221–22
    and private lives of stars, 202
    of ST, 5–6, 114, 123–33, 239
    threats and danger from, 202–6, 215–17
    fathers, father figures, in ST films, 57, 76–77, 85, 105, 159, 161, 164, 178, 182–83
    suggestion of pedophelia in, 81–82
    Faye, Alice, 152
    Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 1, 116, 214–15, 217,