Shirley Temple Movie Marathon on TCM - Today!

Shirley Temple... this adorable, energetic & very talented little girl has warmed her way into many hearts - generation after generation!

Today, TCM will honor Mrs. Shirley Temple Black in a Movie Marathon of some of her very best films! Perhaps, this is a way to say "Happy Birthday" to her in advance, since her birthday is April 23rd!

April 13, 2011 - Movies on TCM:

Little Miss Marker ... 8:15 AM
(A big-time gambler picks up a young girl as security on an IOU.)

The Poor Little Rich Girl ... 9:45 AM
(A lost rich girl takes up with a pair of musical performers.)

Heidi ... 11:15 AM
(An orphaned girl tends goats for her grandfather until she's sold to serve as a disabled girl's companion.)

The Little Princess ... 12:45 PM
(When her father is reported dead in war, his daughter fights harsh conditions at her boarding school.)

Kathleen ... 2:30 PM
(A precocious little girl plays matchmaker between her widowed father and her new governess.)

Since You Went Away ... 4 PM
(A woman copes with wartime rationing by taking in a colonel for extra money while her husband is away serving in World War II, but the war's turmoil appears minor in comparison when her daughter starts a relationship with the lodger's grandson.)

The Littlest Rebel ... 10 PM
(A small and determined Southern girl befriends a Yankee soldier while protecting her Confederate father and even goes to Washington to see the President.)