SHIRLEY TEMPLE TO RETURN
NEW CONTRACT FOR CHILD STAR Shirley Temple, adrift since the cancellation of her contract with Twentieth Century-Fox, is expected to join the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars, writes a Hollywood correspondent. Executives of several studios have made offers for the services of the child star, but the offer of Meuo-Goldwyn-Mayer is favoured, and final
details of the deal are now receiving attention.
The deal calls for two pictures annually, at a salary mounting to £1250 a week. There will be a number of stipulations to protect the future of the il-year-old girl during her adolescence and as she develops into a player able to take increasingly mature roles. Consideration is also given to her parents’ wishes that Shirley should have a more normal girlhood than pic-ture-making has allowed her to have in the past.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives are so confident that Sihrley will become one of their stars that they have assigned Agnes Christie Johnson to screen play Kay Van Ripper’s original “Kathleen” for the child.
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Southland Times, Issue 24313, 19 December 1940, Page 11
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