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How the look and fortitude of a kid actress revived a nation. Her image came out in periodicals and advertisements approximately twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person on the globe. Her family portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: From a black laborer's cabin in SC and young Andy Warhol's house in Pittsburgh to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's entertainment room in Washington, DC, and gangster "Bumpy" Johnson's Harlem apartment. A couple of years later her look cheered the secret bedchamber of Anne Frank in Amsterdam as young Anne hid from the Nazis. For four consecutive years Shirley Temple was the world's box-office champ, an archive never equaled. By early on 1935 her mail was reported as four thousand characters weekly, and hers was the second-most popular girl's name in the united states. What distinguished Shirley Temple out of every other Hollywood celebrity of the period - and everyone since - was how brilliantly she shone. Amid the deprivation and despair of the fantastic Unhappiness, Shirley Temple radiated optimism and plucky good cheer that raised the spirits of large numbers and shaped their collective personality for years to come. Distinguished social historian John F. Kasson shows how the most famous, adored, imitated, and commodified child on the globe astonished movie goers, created a fresh international culture of movie star, and revolutionized the role of children as consumers. Tap-dancing across racial boundaries with Monthly bill "Bojangles" Robinson, foiling villains, and mending the hearts and troubles of the deserving, Shirley Temple personified the hopes and dreams of People in the usa. To do so, she worked virtually every day of her youth, transforming her own family as well as the lives of her admirers.
