Whoa. Could this really be America's littlest sweetheart, Miss Shirley Temple, gleefully succumbing to homicidal impulses? Surely this picture is a fake, or the remnant of some wacko director's idea of between-take camaraderie? Nope, it's an actual screen grab from an actual movie. I leave it to you, dear readers, to name it.
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BABY TAKE A BOW!
Posted by: John | January 30, 2006 at 10:20 PM
Bingo! Somebody give that man a butcher knife.
Posted by: Looker | January 30, 2006 at 10:43 PM
My grandmother showed me this movie years ago. Some images just stick. Shirley Temple with a knife is one of them!
Posted by: John | January 30, 2006 at 10:44 PM
Maybe those people that made the new Shining trailer will recut "Baby Take a Bow" into a Shirley Temple horror film..?
Posted by: Neil | January 31, 2006 at 06:46 AM
Uh, is it A LITTLE PRINCESS?
Posted by: Mike | January 31, 2006 at 09:08 AM
It's baby take a bow. She's actually untying the guy.
Posted by: Joseph Grabko | January 31, 2006 at 01:10 PM
You know, to this day you can't reprint that Graham Greene essay, where he deduced an unsavory aspect to Shirley's relationship with her daddy figures. The family sued and it's enjoined, so far as I know, for all time. Pity, because that frame grab alone kind of makes Greene's point for him.
(And I love Shirley Temple. Truly)
Posted by: Campaspe | January 31, 2006 at 09:41 PM
you have more info on that
Campaspe , graham greene I know well ,heard a flimpse of this story , anxcious to know more.
and yes who does not like curly hair.
Posted by: Hemaworstje | February 03, 2006 at 02:46 PM
Damn...
Posted by: Ivan Minic | February 12, 2006 at 10:56 PM
It's from Curly TOp
Posted by: John Elson | January 03, 2010 at 01:36 AM
.when shirley replies "that's alright" it gives me such a thrill!
Posted by: JESCIE | September 24, 2010 at 10:54 PM
Wow....
Posted by: hahaha | April 30, 2011 at 06:04 PM