I love almost all of her films. We both had the same birthday (April 23). As a child I thought that was the coolest thing. I do prefer her earlier films though. I think the cut-off was 'Young People', it was a shame she had to grow up. I have most of her films stashed on my YouTube streaming channel. I watch them periodically.

That's neat about sharing a birth month and day with Shirley.

She was consistently wonderful, for sure, and had limitless talents, from acting, singing, dance, the ability to have perfect dramatic and comedic timing, and also superb memorizing skills (she's said to not only always have had all her own lines memorized, but also everyone else's).

As you said, such a shame that her growing up meant also the end of her acting career. She could have remained in the business, had she wanted to, but I guess knew that doing so would mean she couldn't devote the amount of attention she wanted to be able to to her children/family.

Btw, very regrettably, neither of the archived IMDb message boards sites salvaged any of the old Shirley Temple board threads from prior to the closing of the IMDb boards. That's such a shame, as it means all the years of people posting about her there are now gone. Even the threads of people memorializing her when she died five years ago are lost to posterity.

That's weird that her board's past posts have vanished.

It's tragic. I remember her board being filled with people's special memories, childhood recollections, etc.