Shirley Temple
Adventure in Baltimore (1949)
Adventure in Baltimore is a 1949 American drama film directed by Richard Wallace and starring Robert Young and Shirley Temple. Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girls' school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.
Starring: Lionel Barrymore•Jerome Courtland
A Kiss for Corliss (1949)
A Kiss for Corliss is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Richard Wallace, written by Howard Dimsdale, and starring David Niven and Shirley Temple. The film, which was the last for both Wallace and Temple, was released on November 25, 1949, by United Artists. It is a sequel to the 1945 film Kiss and Tell, also directed by Wallace and starring T...
Starring: Jerome Courtland•Madge Evans
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Elliott Nugent. The screenplay written by Mary Loos, Mary C. McCall, Jr., and Richard Sale was based on characters created by Gwen Davenport. It follows on from Sitting Pretty (1948), and had a sequel, Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951). The film focuses on prickly genius Lyn...
Starring: Jack Holt•Jerome Courtland
The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
The Story of Seabiscuit is a 1949 American drama film directed by David Butler and starring Shirley Temple and Barry Fitzgerald in a semi-fictionalized account of racehorse Seabiscuit, the top money winner up to the 1940s. The screenplay was written by John Taintor Foote, uses the actual racehorse names, but changed the names of people involved.
Starring: Jerome Courtland•Lois Wilson
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a 1947 American screwball romantic comedy-drama film directed by Irving Reis and written by Sidney Sheldon. The film stars Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple in a story about a teenager's crush on an older man.
Starring: Frank Morgan•Jean Hersholt•Jerome Courtland
Honeymoon (1947)
Honeymoon is a 1947 comedy film directed by William Keighley, starring Shirley Temple, Guy Madison and Franchot Tone.
Starring: Jerome Courtland•Edna May Oliver•Victor McLaglen
That Hagen Girl (1947)
That Hagen Girl is a 1947 American drama film directed by Peter Godfrey. The screenplay by Charles Hoffman was based on the novel by Edith Kneipple Roberts. The film focuses on small-town teenaged girl Mary Hagen, whom gossips believe is the illegitimate daughter of former resident and lawyer Tom Bates. Lois Maxwell received a Golden Globe award fo...
Starring: Jerome Courtland•Charles Farrell
Kiss and Tell (1945)
Kiss and Tell is a 1945 American comedy film starring then 17-year-old Shirley Temple as Corliss Archer. In the film, two teenage girls cause their respective parents much concern when they start to become interested in boys. The parents' bickering about which girl is the worse influence causes more problems than it solves.
Starring: Jerome Courtland•Myrna Loy•Gary Cooper•Claudette Colbert
I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
I'll Be Seeing You is a 1944 American drama film made by Selznick International Pictures, Dore Schary Productions, and Vanguard Pictures, and distributed by United Artists. It stars Joseph Cotten, Ginger Rogers, and Shirley Temple, with Spring Byington, Tom Tully, and John Derek. It was produced by Dore Schary, with David O. Selznick as executive p...
Starring: Franklin Pangborn•Jerome Courtland
Since You Went Away (1944)
Since You Went Away is a 1944 American epic drama film directed by John Cromwell for Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It is an epic about the American home front during World War II that was adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the 1943 novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Marg...
Starring: Joel McCrea•Jerome Courtland•Charles Bickford•Anita Louise
Miss Annie Rooney (1942)
Miss Annie Rooney is a 1942 American drama film directed by Edwin L. Marin. The screenplay by George Bruce has some similarities to the silent film, Little Annie Rooney starring Mary Pickford, but otherwise, the films are unrelated. Miss Annie Rooney is about a teenager from a humble background who falls in love with a rich high school boy. She i...
Starring: Jennifer Jones•Andy Clyde•Jerome Courtland
Kathleen (1941)
Kathleen is a 1941 American comedy-drama film starring Shirley Temple in her first comeback role since "retiring" from the screen a year earlier. It was the only movie she made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Jerome Courtland•Jimmy Durante•Robert Young
The Blue Bird (1940)
The Blue Bird is a 1940 American fantasy film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Walter Bullock was adapted from the 1908 play of the same name by Maurice Maeterlinck. Intended as 20th Century Fox's answer to MGM's The Wizard of Oz, which had been released the previous year, it was filmed in Technicolor and tells the story of a disagreeable...
Starring: Jerome Courtland•Cary Grant•Guy Kibbee
Young People (1940)
Young People is a 1940 American musical drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Shirley Temple and Jack Oakie. This would be Shirley's final film as a child actress.
Starring: Dickie Moore•Shirley Temple•Jerome Courtland
The Little Princess (1939)
The Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the 1905 novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film was the first Shirley Temple movie to be filmed completely in Technicolor. It was also her last major success as a child star.
Starring: Franchot Tone•Jerome Courtland•Alice Faye
Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
Susannah of the Mounties is a 1939 American Western film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, and Margaret Lockwood. Based on the 1936 novel Susannah of the Mounties by Muriel Denison, the film is about an orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West who is taken in by a Mountie and his girlfriend...
Starring: Buddy Ebsen•Jerome Courtland•Gail Patrick
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Just Around the Corner is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings, and written by Ethel Hill, Darrell Ware and J. P. McEvoy, based on the novel Lucky Penny by Paul Gerard Smith. The film stars Shirley Temple as young Penny Hale, who must cope with the consequences after her architect father is forced by circumstances to acce...
Starring: Rosemary Ames•Jack Haley•Jerome Courtland
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
Little Miss Broadway is a 1938 American musical drama film directed by Irving Cummings. The screenplay was written by Harry Tugend and Jack Yellen. The film stars Shirley Temple in a story about a theatrical boarding house and its occupants, and was originally titled Little Lady of Broadway. In 2009, the film was available on DVD and videocassette.
Starring: Spring Byington•Walter Abel•Jerome Courtland
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Allan Dwan, and written by Don Ettlinger, Karl Tunberg, Ben Markson and William M. Conselman, the third adaptation of Kate Douglas Wiggin's 1903 novel of the same name.
Starring: Buddy Ebsen•Jerome Courtland•Robert Benchley
Heidi (1937)
Heidi is a 1937 American musical drama film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Julien Josephson and Walter Ferris, loosely based on Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's book of the same name. The film stars Shirley Temple as the titular orphan, who is taken from her grandfather to live as a companion to Klara, a spoiled, disabled girl. It was a succe...
Starring: Ronald Reagan•Jerome Courtland•Laraine Day
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Wee Willie Winkie is a 1937 American adventure drama film directed by John Ford and starring Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, and Cesar Romero. The screenplay by Julien Josephson and Ernest Pascal was based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. The film's story concerns the British presence in 19th-century India. The production was filmed largely at the I...
Starring: Richard Greene•Margaret Lockwood•Jerome Courtland
Captain January (1936)
Captain January is a 1936 American musical comedy-drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, and Harry Tugend is based on the 1890 children's book of the same name by Laura E. Richards. The film stars Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, and Sara Haden.
Starring: Jennifer Jones•Jerome Courtland•Guy Madison
Dimples (1936)
Dimples is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by William A. Seiter. The screenplay was written by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman. The film is about a young mid-nineteenth century street entertainer who is separated from her pickpocket grandfather when given a home by a wealthy New York City widow. The film was panned by the critics. Videoc...
Starring: Lionel Barrymore•Jerome Courtland
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Poor Little Rich Girl, advertised as The Poor Little Rich Girl, is a 1936 American musical film directed by Irving Cummings. The screenplay by Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, and Harry Tugend was based on stories by Eleanor Gates and Ralph Spence, and the 1917 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name. The film focuses on a child (Temple) neglected by her...
Starring: Jerome Courtland•Madge Evans•Jack Holt
Stowaway (1936)
Stowaway is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by William A. Seiter. The screenplay by William M. Conselman, Nat Perrin, and Arthur Sheekman is based on a story by Samuel G. Engel. The film is about a young orphan called "Ching Ching" who meets wealthy playboy Tommy Randall in Shanghai and then accidentally stows away on the ocean liner he...
Starring: Eugene Pallette•Lionel Barrymore•Jerome Courtland
The Little Colonel (1935)
The Little Colonel is a 1935 American comedy drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by William M. Conselman was adapted from the children's novel of the same name by Annie Fellows Johnston, originally published in 1895. It focuses on the reconciliation of an estranged father and daughter in the years following the American Civil War. T...
Starring: Frank Morgan•Jerome Courtland•Warner Baxter
The Littlest Rebel (1935)
The Littlest Rebel is a 1935 American musical drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by Edwin J. Burke was adapted from a play of the same name by Edward Peple.
Starring: Carole Lombard•John Boles•Jerome Courtland
Our Little Girl (1935)
Our Little Girl is a 1935 American drama, in which Shirley Temple and Joel McCrea play the leading roles. The film was the final work of the veteran director, John S. Robertson.
Starring: Gary Cooper•Jerome Courtland•Junior Coghlan
Baby Take a Bow (1934)
Baby Take a Bow is a 1934 American comedy-drama film directed by Harry Lachman and is one of the earliest Hays code Hollywood films. The screenplay by Philip Klein and Edward E. Paramore Jr. is based on the 1926 play Square Crooks by James P. Judge. Shirley Temple plays the child of an ex-convict trying to make a better life for himself and his fam...
Starring: Rochelle Hudson•Jerome Courtland•Charles Bickford
Bright Eyes (1934)
Bright Eyes is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by William Conselman is based on a story by David Butler and Edwin J. Burke.
Starring: Andy Clyde•Rochelle Hudson•Jerome Courtland
Little Miss Marker (1934)
Little Miss Marker is an American Pre-Code 1934 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Hall. It was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Lehman after a 1932 short story of the same name by Damon Runyon. It stars Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou and Dorothy Dell in a story about a young girl held as collateral by gangsters. It was Te...
Starring: James Dunn•Georgie Smith•Jerome Courtland
Managed Money (1934)
Managed Money is a 1934 short comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. The film stars Frank Coghlan Jr. and Shirley Temple. It was also known as Frolics of Youth and Measured Money. This was the second film in which Temple starred as Mary Lou. The film tells the story of Sonny and Sid prospecting for gold to pay for their military academy education....
Starring: Jack Haley•Jerome Courtland
Now and Forever (1934)
Now and Forever is a 1934 American drama film directed by Henry Hathaway. The screenplay by Vincent Lawrence and Sylvia Thalberg was based on the story "Honor Bright" by Jack Kirkland and Melville Baker. The film stars Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, and Shirley Temple in a story about a small-time swindler going straight for his child's sake. Temple ...
Starring: Alice Faye•Rosemary Ames•Jerome Courtland
Pardon My Pups (1934)
Pardon My Pups is a 1934 Shirley Temple short film about a young boy named Sonny Rogers who wants a motorcycle for his birthday but his stubborn father insists on getting an expensive hunting dog instead even though Sonny hates dogs and the father blatantly just wants the dog for himself. Sonny runs away from home but ends up returning with a pregn...
Starring: Jack Haley•Jerome Courtland
Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
Stand Up and Cheer! is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Hamilton MacFadden. The screenplay by Lew Brown and Ralph Spence was based upon a story idea by Will Rogers and Philip Klein. The film is about efforts undertaken during the Great Depression to boost the morale of the country. It is essentially a vehicle for a string of vaudev...
Starring: Hattie McDaniel•Warner Baxter•Jerome Courtland
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts (1933)
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts is a 1933 American short subject directed by Harry Edwards.
Starring: Andy Clyde•Jerome Courtland
War Babies (1932)
War Babies is a 1932 American comedy short film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the second in a series of eight one-reelers that satirized adult films and themes called Baby Burlesks. The casts in the series are pre-schoolers dressed in adult costumes on top and diapers fastened with large safety pins on the bottom.
Starring: Jerome Courtland•Georgie Smith