Shirley Temple: Child Star, UN Delegate and the Girl Who Shot Eleanor Roosevelt | Parkinson on BBC
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Shirley Temple was three years old when a producer walked into her dancing school, told all the children to do a time step, and watched her break out of the line and hide under the piano instead. He said he would take that one. She has been surprising people ever since. In this conversation with Michael Parkinson, she talks about Lionel Barrymore's creative use of language on set and the law that meant she got sent home every time he opened his mouth, about her trademark curl which started when she fell on a pointed brick on her first day at Fox, and about earning a fortune as a child star and watching a penalty clause and a 97 cents on the dollar tax bill reduce it to almost nothing. She also talks about her work at the United Nations, the Stockholm Environment Conference, and President Sadat of Egypt who started discussing the Middle East but ended up talking about Heidi. And she mentions, almost in passing, that she once shot Eleanor Roosevelt with a slingshot. She hit her. She wa
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