Temple Tuesday: Singing in the Window

In this behind-the-scenes publicity shot, you can see how Fox created closeups of their #1 Box Office Star Shirley Temple for her 1935 movie "The Littlest Rebel." Here's the accompanying publicity blurb:

ONE-TAKE TEMPLE — Shirley rehearses her song, "Polly Wolly Doodle: before making a scene at the barred windows of a military prison with John Boles, in her new Darryl F. Zanuck production of "The Littlest Rebel," for 20th Century-Fox.

And here's how it looked to audiences on screen from the other angle as she talks to her movie dad played by John Boles:



Have no fear; he got out of prison by movie's end. Can't have Shirley's dad being a jailbird!

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