Lincoln Discussion Symposium

"From 1935 to 1939 she was the most popular movie star in America, with Clark Gable a distant second. She received more mail than Greta Garbo and was photographed more often than President Franklin D. Roosevelt...her most successful partnership was with the legendary African-American entertainer Bill (Bojangles) Robinson. She may have been the first white actress allowed to hold hands affectionately with a black man on screen, and her staircase dance with Mr. Robinson in “The Little Colonel,” the first of four movies they made together, retains its magic almost 80 years later."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/arts/s...at-85.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjCFYpWDmfM

Here is the scene from the "The Littlest Rebel" in which Shirley asks for a pardon for her Confederate officer father from President Lincoln.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTMTfM_aZ-c

Greatest child star ever!!

Agreed!

Other Civil War/Reconstruction era pieces Shirley was in are:

The Little Colonel and Dimples.

And now,we have Baby Bo-Bo!

Correction! And now we have "Honey-Bo-Bo!

My 35 year old daughter was near tears at the news. Yet, for all her greatness (and I think "goodness"), her death didn't seem to get much media attention. Her movies with the Civil War themes have been mentioned- especially the one showing her role with Lincoln- but I wonder if her ancestry has any Civil War connections? Anybody know?