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ON FILM: Remembering Shirley Temple Black

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  Charles welcomes back cinephile Jack Fields to talk about the astounding career of Shirley Temple Black, who was Hollywood's lead child actor during the Great Depression.  Jack & Charles talk about her successful early days in cinema, her decision to end her acting career in the late `60s, and her years in public service, acting as Ambassador to the U.N. and Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.   View Shirley Temple's  impressive filmography at her IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000073/?ref_=nv_sr_3.  Read Jack Fields' blog at http://fieldsonfilm.com/

Aired Feb. 22, 2014.

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