Shirley Temple in 'War Babies' (1932)

A group of soldiers in a café watch a dancer as she entertains them, but later two of them become rivals over her.

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[tuberousness]

Infantile . . . because they're infants ! Must have been a tough life being a baby actor back in those more unregulated days...

[maron297]

@jimbowie09 :') 

[jimbowie09]

@maron297 Why dwell on it? Just do some kind of quiet advocacy work like Shirley has been doing her whole life. She really likes to help people in need. Otherwise, it always sounds as though so many people here need to make comments to PROVE they are not paedophiles for watch/enjoying the beauty of Shirley Temple.

[maron297]

@tuberousness , when you look at the movie with the knowing about childmolesters/abusers these days, it is sick to let little children perform that way, and just wat sylviesg8 says(17 hours ago), barely dressed, and act like grownups..When somone makes a movie like that today, all hell would breake loose..

I stil highly respect and edmire the remarkeble natural actingtalent of Shirley btw..that's all.

[tuberousness]

@maron297 Sorry, what ? . . .

[maron297]

@tuberousness , if you look it back it was sick..highley performances by Shirley btw..

[sylviesg8]

For all those who contend those were just innocent times...

...British film critic Graham Greene wrote in a British magazine that Temple was a "complete totsy" and accused her of being too nubile for a nine-year-old:

Her admirers—middle-aged men and clergymen—respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire.

[GoneButStillHere1]

oh how cutee

[n0iwont]

@ianapeixoto1 ...agreed.