Shirley Temple Black, child star of the 1930s and 1940s, tells the story of her life as an actress.

Bright eyes : Having lost her father to a plane crash, 5-year-old Shirley (Shirley Temple) and her mother, Mary (Lois Wilson), live with the Smythe family, for whom Mary serves as a domestic. With the exception of Uncle Ned (Charles Sellon), the Smythes don't much care for Shirley, and she greatly prefers spending time with her godfather, pilot James Merritt (James Dunn). When Mary is killed in a car accident, the distraught Shirley becomes the object...

Curly Top : Charming, headstrong young Elizabeth Blair (Shirley Temple) lives at the Lakeside Orphanage where her sister, Mary (Rochelle Hudson), works in the kitchen. Mary writes songs that Elizabeth sings. The child's performance and her spirit impress a young, wealthy trustee, Edward Morgan (John Boles), who poses as a lawyer with an offer of adoption for Elizabeth, but she won't leave without her sister. Edward decides to bring them both to his...

In The little princess, a young schoolgirl is sent to a boarding school in Victorian London when her wealthy widowed army father is sent to fight in the Boer War.

The soldiers at Fort Apache may disagree with the tactics of their glory-seeking new commander. But to a man, they're duty bound to obey - even when it means almost certain disaster.

Temple stars as a little girl who has flying in her blood and spends her time at the air strip with her godfather. When her mother dies in a car accident she becomes the center of a bitter custody battle.

A young Irish nurse, haunted by the death of her horse racer brother, moves to America with her uncle and falls in love with a top racer, who may be the ailing horse Seabiscuit's only chance at a comeback.

A pupil at an exclusive boarding school is demoted to working in the scullery when reports of her father's death are received.

Story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion of a crippled girl whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.