Bright Eyes

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Bright Eyes, 1934.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Bright Eyes, 1934.

Little Shirley (Temple) by her own name, which she often used in her early movies, with her widowed housekeeper mother Mary (Lois Wilson), marking Christmas Eve and remembering their late father and husband, an aviator, early in 20th Cehtury-Fox's Bright Eyes, 1934.

Shirley Temple with the household servants including Jane Darwell, Brandon Hurst and Lois Wilson as her mother, then in a series of dust-ups with the screeching brat daughter (Jane Withers) of the snooty owners, sensible old-codger uncle Ned (Charles Sellon) taking sides, in the 20th Century-Fox

We're just meeting jolly pilot Loop (James Dunn) when the conversation turns to his godchild, the star, Shirley Temple, age six, playing "Shirley" whom, we learn, is the daughter of his late fellow-aviator friend, opening the first picture written for Temple, from 20th Century-Fox, Bright Eyes, 1934.

This is six year-old Shirley Temple performing what remains her best-known song, for "Loop" (James Dunn) and friends, aviator colleagues of her late father, taxiing on board a DC-2, music by Richard Whiting, lyrics by Sidney Clare, in 20th Century-Fox's Bright Eyes, 1934.