DEAR HELAINE AND JOE: I am interested in knowing about my Shirley Temple doll. She was made by Ideal and is number ST-17-1. My mother gave her to me in the 1950's (I believe it was 1957). Please let ...

Question: I own an original composition, jointed Shirley Temple doll given to my grandmother as a 1930s Christmas gift. It is 22 inches tall, marked “Ideal,” wears a curly blond wig plus all original ...

Photo by Kate York Diane Pfile, vice president of the board at the Children’s Toy and Doll Museum, places tags on her collection of Shirley Temple dolls at the museum. MARIETTA — If the legend is true ...

Question: Attached is photo of a doll given to me by a guest who stayed at our Summer Nites Bed & Breakfast. It is 12 inches high, marked "ST-12-N" and "Ideal Doll-ST12." She wears original, labeled ...

The New York Times called her "the nation's best-liked babykins." In the 1930s, her portrait showed up everywhere, from a poor black laborer’s cabin in South Carolina, to young Andy Warhol’s house in ...

Shirley Temple composite doll, made by the Ideal Toy Company. The doll is molded to represent a young, white, female child, blue eyes, red lips, and blonde hair. The doll is dressed in a yellow cotton ...

Shirley Temple Black, shown in 1935, went from being a child film star to a career diplomat. Globe Photos via MCT Zuma Press Think of it as a devoted parent’s ultimate scrapbook collection. Shirley ...

Happy Easter! In today's What's It Worth?, we have celebrities with us. First, there is that illustrious symbol of the day, "Mr. Rabbit." And, a famous movie star too. Come along as we explore the ...

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck and the Marx Brothers, think again. The biggest star — no. 1 in the 1936, ’37 and ’38 exhibitor polls ...

Shirley Temple, the legendary child star whose corkscrew curls and dimples, heart-melting smiles and heart-breaking tears made her one of biggest stars of Hollywood in 1930s has died. She was 85.