Academy Juvenile Award the year 1934." Beginning her film career at the age of three, in 1934 Temple had attained child stardom in such films as "Stand Up and Cheer!", "Little Miss Marker", "Baby Take a Bow" and "Bright Eyes". Just six years old on the night she accepted her honorary statuette, Temple became the youngest recipient ever to be honored by the Academy, a distinction she still holds to this day. The 11th Annual Academy Awards recognized both Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney with the Juvenile Award honoring "their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth".
Shirley Temple that for just fifteen cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles." Most of the Shirley Temple films were inexpensively made at $200,000 or $300,000 apiece and were comedy-dramas with songs and dances added, sentimental and melodramatic situations, and bearing little production value. Her film titles are a clue to the way she was marketed—"Curly Top" and "Dimples", and her "little" pictures such as "The Little Colonel" and "The Littlest Rebel". Shirley often played a fixer-upper, a precocious Cupid, or the good fairy in these films, reuniting