Shirley Temple, in full
Shirley Jane Temple, married name
Shirley Temple Black, (born April 23, 1928, Santa Monica, California, U.S. died February 10, 2014, Woodside, California), American actress and public official who was an internationally popular child star of the 1930s, best known for sentimental musicals. For much of the decade, she was one of Hollywood’s greatest box-office attractions.
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Shirley Temple was an American actress and public official who was an internationally popular child star of the 1930s, best known for sentimental musicals. Temple’s popularity was partly seen as a response to the Great Depression. With her spirited singing and dancing, Temple and her optimistic films provided a welcome escape from difficult times.
Walter Bernstein, screenwriter who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era – obituary
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Obituary: Walter Bernstein, Hollywood scriptwriter who was hounded by FBI
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Walter Bernstein
Late in the summer of 2019, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, probably best known for his work with Martin Ritt on
Paris Blues (1961) and
The Front (1976) and with Sidney Lumet on
Fail Safe (1964), turned one hundred. To mark the occasion, his good friend of thirty years, novelist Walter Mosley, interviewed him for Literary Hub. “In all my adult life,” wrote Mosley, “I have never met a more intelligent, loving, sensitive, questioning, heroic man.”
Bernstein, who passed away over the weekend at the age of 101, grew up in Brooklyn among left-leaning Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Early on, as a teen during the Depression, he developed a sense that “the system was out of whack,” as he told Camera in the Sun editor Christian Niedan in 2013. “There was something wrong there that was