Kipling’s story was adapted for a 1937 film called Wee Willie Winkie starring Shirley Temple and Victor McLaglen and directed by John Ford. Regardless of how we interpret the nursery rhyme ...

Not everyone was a Shirley Temple fan. The novelist Graham Greene, who was also a film critic, was sued by 20th Century Fox for his review of “Wee Willie Winkie” in the magazine Night and Day ...

With her dimples and blond curls, Shirley ... thespian, Temple and her employer, 20th Century Fox, sued Greene in a notorious libel lawsuit. By the time she starred in “Wee Willie Winkie ...

An early Shirley Temple film ... In a review of one of her later movies, “Wee Willie Winkie,” novelist Graham Greene suggested that the movie sexualized Temple by eliciting an un-childlike ...