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Long life

Was Graham Greene right about Shirley Temple? 

The novelist's idea that the child star resembled Marlene Dietrich when wearing trousers is quite extraordinary

22 February 2014

9:00 AM

22 February 2014

9:00 AM

Shirley Temple, who died last week at the age of 85, was the most successful child film star in history. During the second half of the 1930s, a decade in which she made 23 films and earned $3 million before puberty, she was America’s most popular film star of any kind; Clark Gable came only a distant second.

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