tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18996311.post817152671717476640..comments2024-03-26T15:10:55.199-05:00Comments on The Royal Blog of Oz: Ozbusters! Shirley Temple and MGM's Wizard of OzJayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03766446206846532440noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18996311.post-76443036796975188992022-01-18T18:53:15.496-06:002022-01-18T18:53:15.496-06:00I disagree in that Shirley was an 11 year old and ...I disagree in that Shirley was an 11 year old and much more age appropriate than Judy who was 6 years older ... I wish recordings of Shirley singing the score were still around do we could compare .... Also she did do a movie with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy in which she was very good in ! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06540480909600780546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18996311.post-62755227936936318832017-08-04T08:31:28.548-05:002017-08-04T08:31:28.548-05:00I think it's possible that Shirley Temple woul...I think it's possible that Shirley Temple would have made an enjoyable Dorothy, but I think Jay's point is that the kind of Dorothy she would have made would not have fit into the kind of film Mervin Le Roy and (perhaps more importantly) Arthur Freed were interested in making at MGM. For most of her career at Fox, Temple played an adorable four-year-old who overcame adversity by being cute, and I can imagine a Fox Wizard of Oz culminating with a scene of Shirley climbing on the lap of an unmasked Wizard played, inevitably, by Lionel Barrymore and convincing him to send her back to Kansas. By the time of Oz, Temple was approaching her teens and she couldn't play cute much longer. Not only would the Oz creative team have to deal with her limited vocal ability, they would have to have found a way to re-engineer Temple's onscreen persona. Judy Garland, by contrast, didn't have nearly the same amount of audience perception baggage--she was "the little girl with the big voice" after all--and a big movie centered on her would create her persona for the audience rather than, as with Temple, somehow refashion it from a familiar but unsuitable persona into new one.AMWisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01595022423888044915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18996311.post-56574158773871962582017-08-04T03:08:37.381-05:002017-08-04T03:08:37.381-05:00I may not know much about Shirley Temple's act...I may not know much about Shirley Temple's acting (I haven't even seen her films except for a couple), but I like to think that with the right direction she would have had a more serious or sincere approach to her acting, instead of cute and adorable.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397876293747859812noreply@blogger.com