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 ...

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 ...

In Graham Greene’s review of “Wee Willie Winkie”—which was ... before them acres of anonymity.” But the “Winkie” star Shirley Temple endures; nearly a million DVDs of her work ...

Shirley Temple's stardom falls into the latter ... and her parents don't find her until she becomes a radio star. "Wee Willie Winkie" (1937): In India, she charms her gruff grandfather (C.

and the complete Scottish-kilt outfit from “Wee Willie Winkie,” in addition to her personal dolls and playthings, a child-sized racing car given to Shirley Temple by friend and co-star Bill ...

Shirley Temple, the pint-sized star whose ... in such films as “Heidi,” “The Little Colonel” and “Wee Willie Winkie.” Temple fans flocked to theaters for elaborate production numbers ...

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 ...

Also just out on VHS format, newly priced at $9.98, are "The Stowaway" (1936), "Wee Willie Winkie" (1937), "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) and the "Shirley Temple Sing & Dance Along," which includes ...

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 ...