In January 1966, Shirley began her stint at the San Francisco Film Festival with a smile…and wow, what a hairdo! From the New York Times, 1/20/1966:
Shirley Temple, the former child star, will make one of her infrequent public appearances here tomorrow night. As Mrs. Charles A. Black, a pretty, 37 year-old San Francisco housewife, she will represent the San Francisco International Film Festival at the annual dinner dance of New York’s film importers at the Americana Hotel.
Want to see the certificate? I know you do…
Things took a turn for the worse by the fall of 1966 though when the below photo was wired around the world.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5 — SHE DROPS THE FILM FESTIVAL—Shirley Temple Black, child star of the 1930s, reads a statement disassociating herself from the San Francisco Film Festival today. She resigned because the selection board has endorsed showing the Mai Zetterling directed “Night Games.” Mrs. Black, a suburban Woodside housewife, says the movie merely utilizes pornography for profit. At left is David Sacks, vice president of the American Broadcasting Company and general manager of the festival.
Sacks looked as if he had been watching too much porn. If you think Shirley was a prude, here’s a snippet of the plot synopsis from Wikipedia:
Jan returns with his fiancée to his childhood home. While there he flashes back to his childhood, twenty years before when he lived an unfettered life watched over by a strange great-aunt and a hedonistic and often neglectful mother and father. In particular he remembers watching his mother give birth to a stillborn child after refusing to go to the hospital in the middle of a party and his sexual obsession with his mother which included being caught by her while he was masturbating while listening to her read a bedtime story.
Ew. You go, Shirley! To get that picture out of your head, here’s another shot of Shirley’s aerodynamic hairdo to end the post:
See more Shirley Temple Black photos at my main website.
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