

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
DirectorNadia Tass
“Before Britney, before Madonna ... another girl danced her way to stardom.”
As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts of moviegoers around the world.
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Cast

Ashley Rose Orr
Shirley Temple

Connie Britton
Gertrude Temple

Colin Friels
George Temple

Hinton Battle
Bill Bojangles Robinson

John Diedrich
Sheehan

Steven Vidler
Darryl F. Zanuck

Zoe Bertram
Mrs. Pelucci
Emily Hart
Teen Shirley Temple

Ben Mendelsohn
Alexander Hall
Lucy Taylor
Amelia Earhart

Jerome Ehlers
John Ford

Nicholas Hammond
Adolphe Menjou
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