![]() Though it was meaningless to me at the time, I do remember hearing my parents talking about the huge sums the Temples were putting away for Shirley's future. I was disappointed to learn in later years that there had been a conflict about Shirley's money. Her life was surely changed by that connection but because the Temples were fairly level headed and mostly avoided the ugly side of Hollywood life, I think it was changed for the better. I don't think you need to feel bad for Mary Lou. I had written to Amy that I always felt bad about Mary Lou's younger life being spent in the shadow of Shirley. That was the first thing I thought of when I heard this morning that Shirley had died. In recent years I thought about trying to contact Shirley to find out if Mary Lou was still alive but never followed through. I tried to call Mary Lou several years ago after finding her number on the Internet but it had beenĭisconnected. So that tells me they continued their friendship, probably for a lifetime. I showed her the picture and she told me that she had just seen Mary Lou the week before. The only other time I saw Shirley was when she wrote her autobiography Child Star in 1989 and I went to a book signing in San Francisco (I have lived in the Bay Area 60+ years). We metĪgain when my husband and I resumed the Balboa Island tradition with our own family, but regrettably I lost touch again. Strangely I lost touch with Mary Lou after I was married and moved out of California for a while. It had been Shirley's playhouse and converted to a newlywed cottage for their brief marriage. It was the cottage that had been built on the Temple's property in Brentwood. There were several showers including one held at the house where Shirley and John Agar were living. I was a student at UCLA and living in Westwood. Mary Lou's sister-in-law was Matron of Honor. The last times I saw Shirley were in connection with Mary Lou's wedding. Mary Lou's brother, Harry Jr., must have been married by then. After Harry Isleib died, his widow, Aileen, and Mary Lou moved to Santa Monica. Glendale friend overlapped with her contacts with Shirley, the rare times for example when the Temples came to Glendale to visit. My contacts with Shirley over the years were limited to the occasions when my status as Mary Lou's best Also, her hair wasn't naturally blond and my mother was scandalized that they bleached it! After Tom took the picture.as I heard my mother telling the story over and over to all her friends, "Shirley put on her famous pout, stamped her little foot and said 'When I'm grown up and my own boss, I'll go in the water and get my hair wet whenever I want.'"īy the way, I was amused by the article that told about Mary Lou's mother putting her hair up in pin curlsĮvery night. We all came up on the beach trying to persuade Shirley's mother to let her stay in. Temple called Shirley to get out because she was getting her hair wet. We three little girls were playing in the water when Mrs. I believe this photo was taken on a Sunday because my brother, Tom Anderson, who was a student at Cal Tech, was there for the weekend and he took the picture you see at left. ![]() Sometimes my parents also rented for one week, encouraged by the Isleibs who were neighbors of ours in Glendale. Here's the story behind the picture: in those years the Temples and the Isleibs rented houses on Balboa Island. Amy was kind enough to send along a family photo shot in 1934. Sea Sovereign was also the great-grandson of Man o' War (who appeared in a separate, 1925 film titled Kentucky Pride).Because of a post I had done previously on Shirley Temple's stand-in, Mary Lou Isleib, I was contacted by Amy D. The film also included archival racetrack footage which showed the actual Seabiscuit racing in competition. One account of Seabiscuit's life is depicted in a Shirley Temple film from 1949 titled The Story of Seabiscuit, though it was Sea Sovereign who portrayed Seabiscuit. ![]() Sea Sovereign's mother was Queen Helen by Light Brigade. Seabiscuit had been mated over one hundred times successfully, though none of his foals turned out to be extraordinary runners. Both horses were in a line of pedigree descended from Man o' War. Sea Sovereign was foaled in 1942, sired by Seabiscuit, who was born on May 23, 1933, in Lexington, Kentucky, and was among the most famous race horses of the century. The fine lines of Sea Sovereign's posture, along with his light-bay coloring, resulted in the horse appearing in the 1949 Shirley Temple film to portray his sire, The Story of Seabiscuit. Although Sea Sovereign achieved moderate success as a racehorse, he is most famous for being part of the line sired by Seabiscuit. Sea Sovereign was an American Thoroughbred stallion racehorse foaled in 1942, sired by 1930s winner Seabiscuit, for owner Charles Howard. American Thoroughbred racehorse Sea Sovereign
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