Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note: Shoot the stuff to me, fluff...
This bit of fluff was Zanuck's choice for Shirley Temple's 22nd feature-length film and final picture for Fox, where she was the nation's No. 1 box-office attraction for four years, an Oscar winner, the corporation's biggest single asset. The opening scenes of Young People, covering her progress from waif to world wonder, permit two shots from her earlier films when her wobbly dancing warmed the hearts of millions. Now & then she rasps out such reminiscent ditties as Young People...
...there is one bright side to the picture. Remember what a shock it was the first time you saw Mickey Rooney, the sprite and very juvenile Puck of a few years back, pitching in a parked car with some uncomfortably adolescent bit of fluff. Well, just imagine how much more horrible it would be to see a slinky Shirley sipping her Mumms Extra Dry under the subdued lights of the Stork or the Ritz...
...felt the force of this statement more than old "Cactus Jack" Garner. Wise in the ways of political treachery, the fluff-browed Texan was not surprised last week when many of his hangers-on, even some of his friends, began to avoid him. Still he held his little, well-heeled force together, still determined to fight Term III to the bitter...