The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America Read Online Free

Picture Company (IMP), 202
    Informer, The , 167
    inmates, 86–87
    “In My Little Wooden Shoes,” 171
    In Old Kentucky , 97, 107, 152
    Ireland, 131–32
    Irwin, L. A., 170, 177
    Jack Hylton and His Orchestra, 26
    Jacobs, Floyd, 192
    “jangler,” 111
    Janis, Elsie, 224
    Janis, Jennie Cockrell Bierbower, 224
    Japan:
    ST look-alike contest in, 125
    ST merchandise from, 148
    ST’s fame in, 115
    Jason, Sybil, 183
    Jazz Singer, The , 67, 153
    Jews:
    as outsiders, 130
    persecution of, 132–33
    prejudice against, 44
    Johnson, Ellsworth “Bumpy,” 1
    Johnson, Hiram, 32
    Johnson, Hugh, 62
    Johnson, Nunnally, 166
    Johnston, Alva, 153
    Johnston, Annie Fellows, 99
    Jolson, Al, 162, 186
    Jones, Jennifer, 238
    Jordan, Charley, 18
    Joslin, Theodore, 13, 16
    Joy, Jason, 70
    Junior Girls’ Club, 138
    Just Around the Corner , 178–80, 226, 266 n
    Kathleen , 237
    Kelly, Fred, 127
    Kelly, Gene, 127
    Kent, Sidney, 67
    Kid, The , 134
    Kiddin’ Hollywood , 50
    Kid in Africa , 52
    Kidnapped , 214
    kidnappings, 210–13
    threats to ST, 213–15
    Kipling, Rudyard, 161, 167, 170
    Kiss and Tell , 238–39
    Kiss for Corliss, A , 239
    Kligman, Ruth, 129–30
    “Knocked ’Em in the Old Kent Road,” 183
    Koehler, Ted, 270 n
    Korean War, 241
    Krieger, Gertrude, see Temple, Gertrude Krieger
    Krieger, Maude, 8, 48, 51, 241
    Kugler, Victor, 133
    Ladies’ Home Journal , 138, 221
    Laemmle, Carl, 202
    Lahr, Bert, 179, 190
    Lamont, Charles, 47, 51–52
    Landon, Alf, 43
    Lange, Dorothea, 1
    Laughton, Charles, 209
    Lawrence, Florence, 202
    “Lay-De-O,” 190
    Lee, Gypsy Rose, 224
    Le Gon, Jeni, 94
    LeHand, Marguerite “Missy,” 42
    Lemus, Renzi B., 110–11
    Leslie, Elsie, 53
    Levine, Peter David, 212
    Liber, Benzion, 225
    Lieberman, Ruth, 38
    Liebling, A. J., 127
    Lincoln, Abraham, 107–8, 112, 189, 244
    FDR compared to, 35
    Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 210, 212
    Lindbergh, Charles, 210, 211
    Lindbergh, Charles, Jr., kidnapping of, 210–13
    Lin Yutang, 115
    Little Caesar , 153, 204
    Little Colonel, The , 89, 97, 98–103, 102 , 144, 152, 153, 155, 163, 168, 226
    Little Diplomat, The , 186
    Little Eva (char.), 164–65
    Little Lord Fauntleroy , 53, 214
    Little Miss Broadway , 139, 176–79
    Little Miss Marker , 75–78, 76 , 82, 89, 152, 155, 159, 218, 224
    Little Orphan Annie , 157
    Little Princess, The , 53, 87, 159, 161, 181–84, 182 , 209, 226, 282 n
    Littlest Rebel, The , 89, 97–99, 100 , 103–9, 108 , 112, 155, 161, 163, 168, 227, 269 n
    “Little Three” motion picture corporations, 65–66
    Little Women , 167
    “Living in a Great Big Way,” 94–95, 98, 267 n
    Lloyd’s of London, 210
    Locke, Alain, 109–10
    Loew’s, Inc., 65–66
    Long, Huey, 44, 256 n
    look-alike contests:
    Jackie Coogan, 135
    Shirley Temple, 5, 123–32, 124
    Lord, Daniel A., 68
    Los Angeles Times , 191, 203
    Louisville Courier-Journal , 64
    Loy, Myrna, 117
    Lyle, Bessie, 106
    MacArthur, Charles, 49
    MacArthur, Douglas, 240
    Maeterlinck, Maurice, 186–88, 190
    make-believe, 132–33
    malnutrition, 18–19
    “March of the Wooden Soldiers, The,” 174
    Marsh, Mae, 195
    Marshall, Herbert, 220
    Martin, Joseph W., 42
    Masante, Silvio, 279 n –80 n
    Matthews, Ralph, 110
    May, Lary, 71–72, 262 n
    Mayer, Louis B., 181, 185
    McCarthy, Joseph, 243
    McCrae, Joel, 161
    McDaniel, Hattie, 89, 100
    McGlynn, Frank, Sr., 107
    McHugh, Jimmy, 94
    McLaglen, Victor, 160 , 161–62, 167, 169
    Meglin Kiddies, 46, 48
    Memoirs (Hoover), 17
    Mencken, H. L., 43
    Menjou, Adolphe, 76–78, 76 , 218, 238
    Mercer, Lucy, 24
    merchandising, ST licensed products in, 5, 82, 83, 120, 126, 131, 137, 138, 141–48, 200, 229, 235
    Merriam, Frank, 116
    Merrily Yours , 141
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studios, 26, 65, 70, 181, 186, 231, 237, 241
    Metropolitan Theatre, 203
    Mexican Americans, 72
    Meyers, Gabriel, 118
    Michton, Morris, 141
    “Migrant Mother” (Lange), 1
    Miller, Arthur C., 159
    Minter, Mary Miles (Juliet Shelby), 104
    Miss Annie Rooney , 237–38
    “Miss Brown to You,” 95, 97 ,