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Shirley Temple Black (born Shirley Jane Temple; 1928-2014) was one of the most famous and influential child actors in film history. Her sweet and innocent charm won the hearts of the American public during The Great Depression, and as such her public image as a wholesome, feel-good cherub became rife for pastiche and parody as a stock child actor character in a fictional work. Expect such parodies to be of toddlers or early school age girls (or at least those who appear to be of such age) with curly blond hair, a short frilly dress, and an (ostensibly) sweet personality. Interestingly, most if not all Shirley-esque characters tend to be Spoiled Brats, even though the real-life Temple wasn't exactly known for such behaviour except when a role called for it. A Former Child Star will often resemble an adult version of Temple, and possibly deconstruct the lower standards for child actors of her time by showing the life of a child actor to be much darker than her sugary-sweet screen persona. Sub-Trope of Fountain of Expies, Stock Parodies, No Celebrities Were Harmed and No Historical Figures Were Harmed. Compare The Ahnold, Bruce Lee Clone, Charlie Chaplin Shout-Out, Elvis Impersonator, Freddie Mercopy, Mr. Alt Disney, Mumbling Brando and Trumplica for other parodic depictions of real-world celebrities. |
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I Hate Fairyland has Gertrude, who is something of a deconstruction. Gertrude used to be an innocent young girl who acted like one, dressing in the same frilly skirts and having the same curls in her hair Shirley Temple had. However, her adventure into Fairyland leaves her stranded, and unable to find the key to leave, she grows sick of the Sugar Bowl atmosphere over the years, and starts to go Ax-Crazy as a result, becomes more unkept, all the while murdering her way through the lands to get the key to leave. | |
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"Little" Vicki Valentine in The Simpsons is also loosely based on Temple, and is portrayed as a former child star-turned-dance instructor, a reference to Shirley's talent as a tap dancer. Temple herself was offered the role to voice Vicki, but was unable to record her part. | |
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Whatever Happened To Baby Jane was a 1962 thriller starring Bette Davis in the title role. She had been a child star in vaudeville in the 1910's but her fame had long vanished, and her only reminder was a portrait doll that was made in her likeness as a blonde girl with ringlets. | |
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The 1997 Disney TV film Tower of Terror has Sally Shine, a Temple-esque 1930s child actress who just had the misfortune of having a vengeful sister named Abigail who envied her so much that she hexed her to death in a lightning strike, also sending four other people to their deaths. | |
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Sugar Dimples from the Madeline animated series is a clear dig on Temple, complete with the initially bratty off-set personality along with the fictional film ''Sugar Dimples in The Alps'' being a thinly-veiled parody of Temple's appearance in the 1937 Heidi adaptation. It is later revealed that her crass attitude towards others was due to her loneliness, and Sugar and Madeline eventually made amends and became close friends, occasionally joining Madeline, the other girls and Pepito in their adventures. Ironically enough, Temple herself had actually produced a Madeline adaptation in an episode of The Shirley Temple Show. | |
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The Characters Welcome scene "Child Star Sings to Old Man" stars "Curly Pimple, America's precocious little sweetheart" as the pigtailed, frilly-dressed child film star, who's retiring before she turns six years old. She sings an old-timey song about how all of her best friends are old men, and she does... uncomfortably intimate things with them. | |
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Darla Dimple from Cats Don't Dance. Despite having a sweet and innocent public image, Darla turns out to be a scheming, vengeful and manipulative egotist bent on taking down Danny and the other animal actors. For bonus points, her true personality calls to mind a now-disproven rumor that Temple was really a chain-smoking 30-year-old little person who hated children and animals.note The rumor did get the chain-smoking part right though, as Temple would—ironically enough—die at the age of 86 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease stemming from her lifelong smoking habit; she did however hid this from the public so as not to set a bad example among her younger fans. | |
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A recurring sketch in The Carol Burnett Show has Burnett play a parody of Temple, aptly named "Shirley Dimple", later named "Rhoda Dimple" because Shirley Temple threatened legal action. One such sketch mocked Temple's unsuccessful bid for politics. In 1967, Temple ran as an "independent" candidate for a congressional district. In truth, she was a conservative Republican and a close friend of then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. She ran on a platform of support of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In California. | |
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A sketch in MADtv (1995) had parodies of both Temple and Bill Robinson in "The Littlest Hoochie", taking place in a high school setting. | |
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Markie in the Myth Adventures novel Little Myth Marker is, as the title suggests, very specifically a parody of Marthy Jane, Temple's character in Little Miss Marker. She takes the "fake sugary personality" further by not even really being a child. | |
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The Pinky and the Brain episode "What Ever Happened to Baby Brain" takes place during The Great Depression and has Brain become a Shirley Temple-esque child star in order to fund his latest world domination scheme. He achieves this by using cosmetics to make himself look cute. At one point he even sings a parody of "On The Good Ship Lollipop". | |
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One of the pre-made Sims in the Roaring Heights world for The Sims 3 is Shirley Templeton, a composite of both Temple and Little Orphan Annie, perhaps playing on the popular misconception that Shirley once played the role of the comic strip icon. | |
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In Batman: The Animated Series Mary Louise Dahl, a.k.a. Baby-Doll, was a failed actress who was born with a rare medical condition, confining her into an appearance of a toddler despite her actually being in her thirties. Like most other examples, she also bears the hallmarks of a Shirley Temple expy, having appeared in namby-pamby roles as well which she resented as it forever typecasted her, just as how the real Shirley's acting career declined as people associated her more with her younger roles than as a teen actress. | |
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An article about Los Angeles in the January 1979 issue of National Geographic shows a group of celebrity impersonators, among them a child performer dressed up as Shirley Temple. | |
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Temple lookalike, Samee Lee Jones sings her iconic "Animal Crackers In My Soup" at the recital in What's the Matter with Helen?. | |
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In the Eloise: The Animated Series episode "Eloise Goes to Hollywood", a blond, curly-haired actress named Debbie is angered at what she perceived as Eloise stealing her spotlight. Temple's handprints at the Grauman's Chinese theatre did however appear at some point during the episode. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Cozy Glow is modelled after Shirley, from the curls to the use of "Golly" as a catchphrase. Cozy deliberately uses her cuteness and unassuming appearance to manipulate others in her plan to take over Equestria. | |
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In Mister Lonely, a struggling Michael Jackson impersonator stumbles upon a motley crew of celebrity impersonators living in a commune after meeting a Marilyn Monroe lookalike. Among those performers was a Shirley Temple impersonator, who turns out to be "Marilyn"'s daughter. | |
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Bayn Johnson (probably best known as Kelly in The Electric Company (1971)) played a Shirley type character in a 1967 satire, Curley McDimple. On the 1969 series What's It All About, World? she played "Happy Hollywood", an even snottier parody of Shirley's image. | |
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