In November 1966, Shirley Temple Black and her husband Charles jetted off to Mexico to attend the Acapulco Film Festival. A month earlier, Shirley had caused a furor at the San Francisco Film Festival by protesting the gratuitous nudity in the film, “Night Games.” As a result, she disassociated herself from the Festival. While some applauded her stance, it also gave the press an opportunity to present Shirley as a relic of the past. Interesting that she would choose to attend the Acapulco event just one month later. The caption for the above November 16 photo reads:
Pert Mrs. Charles Black, who is also sometimes known as Shirley Temple, dons her white gloves and prepares to take off with her husband for Mexico City and Acapulco, via Western Airlines. The Woodside couple attend the Acapulco Film Festival while south of the border.
Shirley descends the plane as she arrives in Acapulco.
Even in her adulthood, Shirley was not immune to the paparazzi!
I wonder if Shirley went Skin Diving?
A shot of Shirley and Charles at the festival itself:
She wore the exact same dress for the San Francisco one in January 1965; what would Joan Rivers and the Fashion Police have said about that?
The press headlines read “Acapulco Film Festival Has Apathetic Opening” on November 16th:
The ninth annual Acapulco review of film festivals opened last night with an apathetic viewing of the Berlin festival winner “No Time for Foxes.”…Shirley Temple was in the audience but was not introduced. Delegations from 10 nations including the United States are attending the Acapulco event, which reviews the best of other festivals but does not select a winner.
Shirley herself was one of the U.S. Delegates. In December, a color Bob Hope special that was filmed at the Festival was aired on television, featuring an all-star cast. It doesn’t appear that Shirley was part of the fun.
Shirley didn’t get a lot of press for her trip, other than the reports that she was “shocked by “immoral’ presentation” and that she was robbed:
Mrs. Shirley Temple Black today said she would not prosecute a purse-snatcher who made off with her bag containing $300 if he would return the papers in the purse. As the former child star entered Fort San Diego Thursday night to attend a function of the Acapulco Film Festival, a thief snatched her purse and disappeared into the crowd.
Anticipating that you’d want to see a shot of Fort San Diego, here is one from the which museum site:
No reports as to whether the purse was returned or not; I would guess the latter.
See more Shirley Temple Black photos at my main website.
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