Shirley Temple Black has died

[Linda Anderson]

"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