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Child Star: An Autobiography
Shirley Temple. She was a curly-topped moppet with a saucy grin that lit up the screen and an irrepressible spirit that won America's heart. But what was life really like for this extraordinary child growing up on the back lots and sound stages of Hollywood? This BOMC alternate reveals the ups and downs of stardom at age four and tells the funny, poignant, heartwarming chr
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Paperback
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560 pages
Published
November 2nd 1989
by Headline Book Publishing
(first published May 8th 1989)
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I have read several books about Shirley Temple, this one she wrote herself. She was a child star but she did not have a very happy childhood, her stage mother was demanding, and overbearing. Shirley had no childhood at all and went to studio schools. Her mother pushed her to work constantly not giving her a childhood. Her parents hardly put of her money aside either. At at a young age to escape her mother she married early John Agar, who was older and a drunk. She divorced him and married Mr Bla
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