At eighteen months, Shirley and her ball.
Cheesecake, posed by herself for Father, Santa Monica, California, 1930.
Her second film, War Babies, Educational Films, costume by Mother, 1932.
Her fifth birthday, with Mother, 1933.
Morelegs Sweettrick, Kid in Hollywood, costume by Shirley's Mother, 1933.
With Georgie and ostrich, Kid in Africa, 1933.
With producer Jack Hays and her first leading man Georgie Smith, 1932.
Femme fatale, 1933 vintage.
"Lazy Bones" audition with Lee Brown, Fox studio, 1933.
Her first dance routine in a major film. With Jimmy Dunn, Stand Up and Cheer, 1934.
Will Rogers visiting from David Harum, Fox studio, 1934.
Contract signed. Father and Shirley at Fox studio, summer 1934.
Her all-time favorite photo: waif in Little Miss Marker, 1934.
Conciliatory pony ride after being spanked by bother Jack.
Encounter with Marlene Dietrich, Paramount studio commisary, 1934.
The 24th Street neighborhood gang: Bernard Arnold, Dorothy Arnold, Richard Allen, John Matzinger, Mark Allen, Jean Arnold, and Shirley 1934.
Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper at Paramount, Now and Forever, 1934.
Mary Lou Isleib, her friend and stand-in.
Ceremonial bare footprint, forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, 1934.
Initial dolls in an unexpected collection, 1934.
Promotional breakthrough, New Year's, 1935.
Hand in hand with Uncle Billy "Bojangles" Robinson, 1935.
A rumble: prompting Lionel Barrymore in The Little Colonel, 1934.
Staircase dance from The Little Colonel, with Uncle Billy Robinson.
Big crush on Joel McCrea, Our Little Girl, 1934.
Diminutive Oscar award, with Irvin S. Cobb, 1935.
The most comfortable shoulders in history: those of Duke P. Kahanamoku, Hawaii, 1935.
Piping aboard the USS Gamble, Pearl harbor, 1935.
Two early Shirley Temples in costume from The Little Colonel, 1934.
The best dancing partner: Buddy Ebsen, Captain January, 1936.
Backstage training with Uncle Billy Robinson, 1935.
Precision tap sequence with Jack Haley and Alice Faye, Poor Little Rich Girl, 1936.
Construction laborer on glass-brick demonstration playhouse, 1936.
John Griffiths ("Griff"), bodyguard, 1935.
Vittorio Mussolini and Darryl Zanuck, outside studio bungalow, 1937.
Baron Saburo Kurusu, later pre-Pearl Harbor Japanese emissary, 1936.
Studio schoolteacher and dear companion Frances Klapt ("Klammy"), 1935.
A treasured red and white racer from a treasured Uncle Billy Robinson, 1936.
Frank Morgan stealing her line in Dimples, 1936.
As a Bowery princess in Dimples, 1936.
Playboy pal Robert Young in Stowaway, 1936.
A fast hackney behind Little Carnation.
Afghan opponent Cesar Romero in Wee Willie Winkie, 1937.
Evading the stampede, Wee Willie Winkie.
Auld Lang Syne with Victor McLagen, Wee Willie Winkie.
Transpolar Soviet flyers: Andrei Ymashev, Mikhail Gromov (pilot) and Sergei Danilin, 1937.
The orignial Ching-Ching in my bed, 1936.
Bedroom scene featuring glass/china miniatures and Ching-Ching II, 1940.
Paulette Godard, chaperon for Charlie Chaplin's sons, Palm Springs.
G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, Fox studio, 1937.
Caged by J. Edgar Hoover like a skunk, Yosemite Valley, 1938.
Airmail poster requested by Postmaster General James A. Farley.
Brother George's welcome home from Hawaii, 1937.
Honorary colonel of the 27th "Wolfhound" Infantry Regiment, Hawaii, 1939.
Superdancer and later U.S. Senator George Murphy, Little Miss Broadway, 1938.
Candy temptation from Joan Crawford during Little Miss Broadway.
Shirley's first visit with Eleanor Roosevelt during Little Miss Broadway, 1938.
With Helen Hayes, First Lady of the American theatre, and her daughter Mary, 1937.
Indian signs with Martin Goodrider, Susannah of the Mounties, 1938.
Chief Yellow Kidney instructing Bright Shining Star in Susannah of the Mounties.
The Little Princess premiere: Her parents and she with Darryl Zanuck, 1938.
Oscar awards to Disney, seven dwarfs, but no Snow White, 1939.
Teaching Noel Coward fractions in soundstage trailer, 1938.
Croquet challenge match with Orson Welles, 1939.
Departure for Honolulu: Jack, her parents, and George Jr. 1937.
Clark Gable on MGM lot during Kathleen, 1941.
Calypso routine from Kathleen.
Signed with David O. Selznick, 1943.
Wishful romance, with Lieutenant Joseph Cotten in Since You Went Away, 1944.
Her sixteenth birthday on the set of I'll Be Seeing You: Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Spring Byington, Ginger Rogers, 1944.
With Mother, 1944.
Old time student, West Lake School, 1944.
Air cadet Andrew D. Hotchkiss Jr., her first love, 1944.
Wastepaper collection with Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (left) and Ethel Merman (right), 1944.
Clairvoyant Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada, Ottawa, 1944.
MGM adolescents: Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, with Louis B. Mayer, 1941.
Serious talk with Ronald Reagan, father-lover figure in That Hagen Girl, 1948.
Martial arts with Franchot Tone, Honeymoon, 1946.
Cary Grant and Rudy Vallee during The Bachelor and The Bobbysoxer, 1947.
Newly engaged to be married, 1945.
Traditional wedding dress, Los Angeles, 1945.
Sergeant Jack Agar at the announcement of the engagement, 1945.
Firstborn Linda Susan, Brentwood, Los Angeles 1948.
With Father at Brown Derby Restaurant, Hollywood, 1945.
Marriage, 1950.
Her husband, as encountered in Honolulu, 1950.
Charlie Jr. (Barton Sunday), Bethesda, Maryland, 1952.
With her Lori Alden Black, Atherton, California, 1954.
