Q 01/05

Which young star ended Shirley Temple's four-year run as Hollywood's top box-office draw in 1939?

A) Judy Garland

B) Mickey Rooney

C) Deanna Durbin

D) Jackie Cooper

Answer · why

B) Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney, then starring in the Andy Hardy films, took over the theatre owners' poll and led it for three years running; Temple had topped it from...

Q 02/05

Where was Shirley Temple born on 23 April 1928?

A) Los Angeles, California

B) Pasadena, California

C) San Francisco, California

D) Santa Monica, California

Answer · why

D) Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica, California stayed the family's home until 1936, when fans knocking on the door and peering through the windows drove them to a walled an...

Q 03/05

Which fact about Shirley Temple was falsified until her teens?

A) Her name

B) Her age

C) Her birthplace

D) Her height

Answer · why

B) Her age

Her age was cut by a year when her career took off; she learned the truth at what she had been told was her twelfth birthday party, when she was reall...

Q 04/05

Which series of one-reel shorts, with small children playing every role, gave Shirley Temple her start in 1932?

A) Our Gang

B) Frolics of Youth

C) Baby Burlesks

D) Kiddie Kapers

Answer · why

C) Baby Burlesks

Baby Burlesks dressed toddlers as adults above the waist and in nappies below to spoof stars such as Marlene Dietrich; Temple later called it a cynica...

Q 05/05

Which 1934 film, with the song 'Baby, Take a Bow', was Shirley Temple's breakthrough at Fox?

A) Now and Forever

B) Stand Up and Cheer!

C) Change of Heart

D) Carolina

Answer · why

B) Stand Up and Cheer!

Stand Up and Cheer! gave her a single song-and-dance number, and within an hour of finishing it Fox had put the five-year-old under contract for a yea...