The Frazier History Museum brings i of Hollywood’s nigh iconic too memorable kid stars to life every bit it presents “Love, Shirley Temple,” *a six-day (only) demo featuring nearly 200 items from the legendary actress’s personal collection of painting costumes, dolls too memorabilia.
“Love, Shirley Temple” spans the ascent of “America’s Little Darling” to stardom inwards 1930, the Depression years, too the halt of her childhood inwards 1941. From 1935 through 1938, Shirley Temple was indisputably the box component subdivision champion - a feat that has never been matched. While Shirley Temple sang too smiled her means into hearts, her mother, Gertrude Temple, was busy preserving the memorabilia that attended her daughter's to a greater extent than than xl films produced inwards i decade.
The collection includes: her extraordinary autograph books, too a myriad of Shirley’s ain cherished dolls, playthings too signed letters too photos from such luminaries every bit President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Irving Berlin, Noel Coward, Marlene Deitrich too Orson Welles. In addition, Shirley’s nigh recognizable painting costumes volition move viewed for the starting fourth dimension time including the iconic ruby-red polka point clothing from her breakout cinema “Stand Up too Cheer” too the consummate Scottish-kilt outfit from managing director John Ford’s classic “Wee Willie Winkie.”
The collection besides includes a child-sized racing car given to Shirley yesteryear her closed friend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, who co-starred amongst her inwards the classic movie, The Little Colonel, which has an interesting local connection. Annie Fellows Johnston, famed plow of the century writer of the children’s mass serial that inspired the movie, is from the area. For The Little Colonel Series, Johnston fictionalized Pewee Valley, Kentucky, every bit Lloydsborough Valley. In 1935, Twentieth Century Fox released the cinema The Little Colonel, amongst Shirley Temple playing the component subdivision of the Little Colonel.
*Louisville is i of but 7 cities exhibiting this collection, which volition presently teach on the auction block.
Where: Frazier History Museum, 829 due west Main St,
When: July 3-8th
Contact: 502.753.5663 or fraziermuseum.org
-Gioia Patton