I taped this movie off the air when it originally aired on ABC-TV in 2001, and I'm glad I was able to find it on DVD. Based on Shirley Temple Black's autobiography
Child Star
(Black was also a consultant on the film), and co-executive-produced by Melissa Joan Hart of TV's SABRINA, THE TEENAGE WITCH, this film is a lovely tribute to Shirley, with newcomer Ashley Rose Orr magnificent in the title role. Emily Hart, Melissa's sister, plays the older Shirley in later scenes. Hinton Battle does a magnificent job as legendary tapper Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and choreographed the entire movie, reproducing the dance numbers perfectly (almost identically, in fact, to the originals from Shirley's movies). The DVD contains audio commentary from Melissa Joan Hart, a "making-of" mini-doc, and English, French, and Spanish subtitles.
I have ten Shirley Temple movies on DVD. A few years ago, I purchased
Captain January
,
Little Miss Broadway
,
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
,
Just Around the Corner
, and
Young People
. More recently, I added
Stand Up and Cheer!
,
Curly Top
, and the
Shirley Temple - America's Sweetheart Collection, Vol. 3 (Dimples / The Little Colonel / The Littlest Rebel)
to my collection. Unfortunately, my favorite Shirley movie of all,
Poor Little Rich Girl
, which has the great "Military Man" number, Shirley's best tap routine ever in my opinion, has yet to be released on DVD in this country, only on VHS, although there is a French version available, which cannot be played on U.S. DVD players. I hope that 20th-Century Fox Home Entertainment corrects this oversight soon.
Had Shirley Temple remained in musical comedy as an adult, she probably would have challenged Ann Miller and Eleanor Powell for Hollywood's Queen of Tap Dancing; she was that good, even as a child. Her later dramatic films didn't work, and it was probably fortunate that she gave up show business and had a happy "second life" with second husband Charles Black, who passed away in 2005. Shirley ably served her country as a diplomat and ambassador, became a mother and grandmother, and received a well-deserved Kennedy Center Honor in 1998. Given the tragic fate of so many other child stars who battled drug abuse, alcoholism, and depression, and, in some cases, eventually passed away - think of the late Gary Coleman and Dana Plato for starters - Shirley Temple Black made the right choice. Her long, wonderful life finally ended on February 10, 2014, when she passed away in her California home at age 85, two months before her 86th birthday.
God bless you, Ambassador Shirley Temple Black - we love you! R.I.P., dear Shirley...
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