Johnny, 187 , 188
Russia, 10, 20
Santa Monica, Calif., 9
Sara Crewe; or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s Boarding School (Burnett), 181
Schallert, Edwin, 191, 192
Schenck, Joseph, 67, 187, 228
Schoenberg, Arnold, 116
Scott, Hazel, 102
Scott, Randolph, 161, 173–74, 184
Screen Actors Guild, 238
Screen Guild Theater , 217
Screenland , 208
Sears, Roebuck company, 141
Seiter, William, 221
Sellon, Charles, 84
Selznick, David O., 104, 153, 237–38, 239, 241, 291 n
Sendak, Maurice, 212
Sennwald, Andre, 103
Shean, Al, 190
Shearer, Norma, 117
Sheehan, Winfield, 73–75, 80, 141, 151–55, 163, 197, 221, 236
Zanuck vs., 152
Shelby, Juliet (Mary Miles Minter), 104
Shirley Temple badges, 227
Shirley Temple Black and Bill Robinson White (Colescott), 106
Shirley Temple formula, 3–4, 58, 83, 119, 148, 151–52, 155, 196–98, 237
innovations to, 188–90
waning appeal of, 163–70, 176–80, 197–98
Zanuck and, 166–68, 170, 172–74, 176–78, 181–84, 187, 189, 194, 197–98
“Shirley Temples,” as term, 155
Silver Screen , 5, 125
Simplicissimus , 115
Since You Went Away , 237, 291 n
slavery, film image of, 104–8
smiles:
in African American stereotype, 88, 98
of Eisenhower, 243
of FDR, 2, 6, 22–25, 27, 31, 32, 34–35, 38, 40–44, 59, 89, 243
negative response to, 43
postwar symbolism of, 243
of Robinson, 2, 89, 91, 96, 98, 111, 112, 113
of ST, 1, 6, 48, 59, 88, 89, 103, 109, 146, 150, 164, 165, 168, 198, 239
symbolism of, in Depression, 1–2, 26, 34, 80–81, 89, 111, 233
Smith, Alfred E., 19–20, 26
Smith, C. Aubrey, 168
Smith, Charlotte, 224
Snow White dolls, 148
Solomon, Aubrey, 278 n , 282 n –83 n
Sondergaard, Gale, 190
So Red the Rose , 104
South, 89–90
mythic, 97–98, 99, 104, 107, 109
songs of, 101
Southern California Edison Company, 7–8
Soviet Union, 12
Spyri, Johanna, 170
Square Crooks , 80–81
Stafford, John, 192
stage/screen fathers:
dilemma of, 229–30
see also Temple, George
stage/screen mothers, 9, 46–47, 54, 125, 132, 224, 227
satire of, 127–28
see also Temple, Gertrude Krieger, as determined screen mother
Stalin, Joseph, 45
Stand Up and Cheer! :
African Americans in, 88–89
as ST’s breakthrough film, 2, 48, 55, 56–63, 56 , 58 , 62 , 69, 73, 74, 75, 78, 80, 82, 87, 118, 119, 143, 149, 152, 155, 171, 179, 185, 194, 205, 207 , 243
“Starvation Blues,” 18
State Department, U.S., 66
State of the Union Address (1931), 14
Steamboat Round the Bend , 152
Stearns, Marshall and Jean, 95–96
Stephens, Frank, 214–15
stereotypes:
of African Americans, 88–89, 91, 93, 95, 99–100, 104, 106–7, 110–12, 113
of Southern gentleman, 99
Stimson, Henry L., 16
stock market crash (1929), 11–14, 21, 67, 93
Stokowski, Leopold, 116
Stowaway , 87, 162, 173, 279 n
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 53, 97, 164
Stratton, Charles (General Tom Thumb), 163
Strauss, Theodore, 238
Stuart, Gloria, 173, 175
Sturges, Preston, 87
Styne, Jule, 228, 229
Sullivan’s Travels , 87
Summerville, Slim, 173, 175
Superior Court, California, 241
Supreme Court, U.S., 59
Susannah of the Mounties , 161, 174, 184–85
Swanson, Gloria, 203, 220
talent scouts, 47
tap-dancing, 4, 89, 93, 95, 127, 171
Tarzan , 52
Technicolor, 26
Teddy bears, 141
“teenagers,” as term, 238
television, 33, 241, 243
Temple, Francis, 8
Temple, George, 2, 51, 55, 206–7, 207 , 214, 215, 225, 239
breadwinner dilemma of, 202, 228–30
courtship and marriage of, 7–9
financial mismanagement by, 240–41
in ST’s career, 55, 73, 74 , 187, 188–89, 229, 232–33, 237
upward mobility of, 8–9, 228
Temple, George Francis, Jr. “Sonny,” 8–9, 205, 208, 222, 241
Temple, Gertrude Krieger, 2, 47 , 60 , 214, 215, 239
conflict between Zanuck and, 174, 180, 184, 187–89, 195–96, 237
courtship and marriage of, 7–9
as determined screen mother, 9, 46–48, 50–52, 55, 56, 118, 201, 205, 218–19, 224–25
as disciplinarian, 225–28, 290 n
dismissive