Hollywood Execs Shoved Shirley Temple Into a ‘Black Box.’ Literally.

* The curls were cute. The system wasn’t. * A black box waited off-camera. * Stardom came with a price tag. =========================================================== Most people remember Shirley Temple as the adorable childhood star during Hollywood’s heyday. The Dimples. Tap shoes. Bouncy ringlets. That heartwarming little smile. On the Good Ship Lollipop. She became the kind of child star whose image was so relentlessly cheerful that it eventually hardened into American nostalgia. Forever America’s sweetheart. Which is precisely why the story about the ominous “black box” sounds practically unbelievable the first time you hear it. A TikTok video explains that when Temple...