Child Star - The Shirley Temple Story

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Summary: Better than I expected
Review: I would say that my main criticism of this film is that the child who played Shirley was too old for the part. The child was very good. She even has a better voice than Shirley has. She faithfully recreated some difficult dance numbers. My favorite being the one from Captain January. It is unfair to expect one child to play another child between the ages of 5 and 12. Also, if you read the book, you will note that things were not always quite so wonderful for young Shirley. The movie came to an abrupt end after only 90 minutes. It never went into the fact that her family mismanaged her money.The child is very talented that played Shirley. It was an overwhleming task to play a living legend.

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Summary: I really love Shirley Temple, but Ashley Rose Orr stunk!
Review: Shirley Temple is my #1 favorite actress. I hope I don't offend her but Ashley Rose Orr was horrible at this. First of all, she hardly looks like Shirley except for the hair! Second, she has to be 8 or 10 years old, people! Having an 8-10 year old play a five year old? I mean PUH-LEASE!. BUT.....this is my opinion! Think whatever you want, please don't feel offended, I love Shirley and I think The girls who played her as three and 15 were awesome, but I think they could have done childhood Shirley better.

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Summary: Fabulously accurate!
Review: There is only one Shirley Temple but Ashley Rose Orr comes very close, even though she only looks like her minorly and she plays her from the age of 5 to 12 (she is 10) which isn't wise. I found no inaccuracies here whatsoever (though, since it is only two hours long there are still a lot of stories left out. Like, when she shot Elenor Roosevelt in the rear end with her slingshot at a picnic at her house in Hyde Park. And when she stopped believing in Santa Clause when her mother took her to see him in a department store and he asked for her autograph.) Ameilia Earhart really was Shirley's hero, and she really did visit her at her studio and shortly before her doomed flight. (It is NOT a write-in!) And Shirley really was M.G.M.'s first choice for the role of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz"; and the only reason she didn't get it was because Jean Harlow died, tragically. (But she does NOT covet Judy Garland for it, nor down tequila's and tranquilizers in her bathroom over the loss of never playing Dorothy Gale!) It's all true! I am not a Judy Garland fan at all, I'm a big Shirley Temple fan. And I really, really wish Shirley had still gotten to be Dorothy. Because of the fact that Garland was exactly 10 years my senior I could not relate to her, so, unlike Shirley, I missed out on wanting to meet Dorothy at age 6. I am certain that Oz still would have been a classic instead of just another Shirley Temple film. But I don't really care.

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Summary: Awesome Ashley
Review: This is my second review on this movie so you might think this may be a little abrupt however I was yet to announce in my last review how much I liked this movie. I have watched this 15 times since this movie came out and I am not even sick of it! Ashley's appeal just doesn't get old. She smiles and grins and the drama she adds is great. Well yes Emily Hart played Shirley but i thought she did a wonderful portrayal as teenage Shirley ,her clothes were close to the original and she acted like i imagine ,a teen Shirley. Also Mellisa Joan Harts sister played the little Shirley in the beginning of the movie who I thought was very cute(she has a diffrent last name though)DONT say that its cheap to have these people play the movies because this is my favorite movie and its amazing....my friends who watched this movie were glued to the screen and imagine that,.....now they're Shirley Fans

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Summary: I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
Review: This is one of my favorite movies! I watch it over and over again w/o getting sick of it! Although I thought Ashley Orr didnt really have the Shirley charm, she was pretty good! This is such a great movie and I can go a week w/o watching it!

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Summary: Very Cute...
Review: This movie is really great for those of you who admire Shirley's talents and would like to know more about her childhood. The girl who plays Shirley Temple doesn't really look like her at all, to be honest. She tries WAY too hard to be cute (and she succeeds). I haven't spotted any inaccuracies so far, except for the crew singing for her and giving her a birthday cake (that part was added to the script just to show viewers how close Shirley and the crew were). The songs and dances are very enjoyable. But the DVD edition has very few bonuses, although they're really good. The commentary by Melissa Joan Hart (TV's Sabrina) points out a lot of things that aren't shown in the movie, and there are interviews with the whole cast. Still, they could have had other things like a photo album, some song tracks of the real Shirley, an interview with Shirley, and other cool things. Well it's a very good movie well worth the money, but don't expect to see Shirley in it!

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Summary: Pretty Awful
Review: This movie was awful! Ashley Rose Orr, while a talented tap dancer, and singer (actually a little better than Temple was in terms of the latter), is a terrible actress. She plays the character as the Shirley that we saw on screen in her movies whether she's playing her on screen or off screen persona. So what we get is an overly cutesy, and wholly unrealistic (not to mention uninteresting) portrait. If one wants to see that side of her, one can just watch one of her movies. The only bright light here is Connie Britton's portrayal of Gertrude Temple. I don't think it was terribly realistic, but at least it was well acted. The Poor Little Rich Girl is definitely a better investment.

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Summary: child star a great movie!
Review: this movie was so good. it is a great movie for the whole family. i loved this movie i personally think they should show the movie more often.

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Summary: This was great!!!
Review: This was a wonderful movie!! Ashley Rose Orr does a great job protraying Shirley Temple(the voice, laugh etc.). The scenes where she cried were wonderful and almost brought me to tears, also the dancing was great and very advanced. This is an exceptionally wonderful movie and I recommend it to all Shirley Temple fans.

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Summary: aSHirley = aShLEY
Review: This was one of the most diffuclut tasks ,I believe because getting someone who could even match a glimpse up to Shirley had to be a task too hard to handle. I didnt see and big historical innaccuracies but like when she put her feet onto the Graumanns theater she didnt smile really because she had just lost a tooth and little things like that. I liked how they did this but I really wished they had showed more of her just being herself and the hard things and sad things like I really enjoyed her scene from Now and Forever where she had trouble with the crying because I could just imagine,and when Amelia Earhart died I started crying myself,one of the most tragic things is when she didnt get the part of Dorothy and when she said she didnt care but she really did and ended up basicaly crying herself to sleep. The life of Shirley Temple was very hard and wasnt all "Lollipops and Apple Pies all rolled into 1!" (Line from : Baby Take a Bow) but it was one heck of a ride and IT would be the experience of a lifetime and this movie shows you a little what it was like!