Was Shirley Temple 21; 25 or 29 when she made her last film in 1949 ?
Shirley Temple 1937 when he criticized the film, stating that Temple displayed "a dubious coquetry" which appealed to "middle-aged men and clergymen": Shirley Temple and Twentieth Century-Fox sued for libel and won. The settlement remained in trust for the girl in an English bank until she turned 21, when it was donated to charity and used to build a youth center in England. "Heidi" was the only other Shirley Temple film released in 1937. Midway through the shooting of the movie, the dream sequence was added to the script. There were reports that the little actress was behind the dream sequence and
Shirley Temple the girl would successfully move from child star to teenage actress, Zanuck declined a substantial offer from MGM to star her as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz", and cast her instead in "Susannah of the Mounties", her last money-maker for Twentieth Century Fox. The film was successful, but because she made only two films in 1939, instead of three or four, Shirley dropped from number one box-office favorite in 1938 to number five in 1939. In 1939, she was the subject of the Salvador Dalí painting "Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time",