Shirley Temple’s third LIFE Magazine cover was released on February 3, 1958. She is shown with her daughter, Lori Black, at their Atherton, California home. Below is an alternate shot, showing the vinyl 1950’s Shirley Temple doll that daughter Lori is holding.
Shirley was a marketing wiz and knew that with her old movies being shown on TV and the upcoming release of her TV Storybook Anthology, the time was ripe to re-release the doll bearing her childhood likeness.
Shown below is the book Shirley is sharing with her daughter: Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Retold for Young Children, Published by Grosset & Dunlap, 1952, with illustrations by James Caraway.
Shirley also released her own collection of Fairy Tales, featuring the ones that were dramatized on her television show:
Back to LIFE Magazine! From the inside front cover:
Looking lovelier than ever in her original Don Loper gown, (eat your heart out, Lucy!) Shirley garnered a full-page color image inside the magazine.
The other two pages of the feature were black and white, focusing on her family and, of course, her earlier career as an actress. The contemporary shot of Shirley watching herself as a child in “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” is marvelous, and her quote is somewhat wistful: “It seems like someone else.”
The first episode of Shirley’s anthology series was “Beauty and the Beast,” starring Charlton Heston and Claire Bloom. No, Chuck did not play Beauty.
Claire Bloom tightly hugging one of her wardrobe pieces.
Final image for today’s post shows Shirley getting ready for the LIFE photo shoot, with director Mitchell Leisen behind her.
See more Shirley Temple’s Storybook photos at my main website.
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