Franklin Delanor Rosevelt And Shirley Temple During The Great Depression

What do Franklin Delanor Rosevelt and Shirley Temple, an actress, have in common? Both, helped people overcome the Great Depression. President Roosevelt helped by making work relief and agricultural programs, while Shirley Temple only acted to help people during the Great Depression. Though, it took more effort for the President than Temple it shows that both of these people did make a lasting impact on the Great Depression for good. Shirley Temple changed the nation’s morale for the good during the Great Depression.
Being a prodigy had to play in Temple’s amazing acting skills. Temple would learn her spots on the stage very quickly. The way that she would learn her stop on the stage is interesting and unique. Temple would use thermal heat

Shirley Temple acting during the worst years of the Great Depression had a great effect on everyone. Everyone, even the president, depended on her to make them feel better. “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right… when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time during this Depression, it is a splendid thing… an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles" (Maume). In some situations, people did truly rely on a little girl who acted to help them from their miseries. Temple made this happen by making the viewers think that she was there talking to them. “...at the end of Allan Dwan’s Heidi (1937), she prays, in close-up, “Please make every little boy and girl in the world as happy as I am,” then looks up to smile into the camera” (“Girl”). Even though Temple made funny movies she has those heart-to-heart moments with the audience that only makes the viewers love the movie

Temple says what made her not like other child actors that miss their fame and popularity part of her not missing is that anything that you have been working at since the age of three was normal (CNN). Because Temple acted since the age of three your personality would not change very much, it would grow. At one time Temple wrote, “I was absolutely bathed in love” (qtd. in Allott). Also, what helped Temple persevere through her acting year is her naturally calm temperament. An example is when Shirley Temple wanted to take out the money that she earned from her acting years out of her bank account. When she didn’t receive the money she decided to take action and have a meeting with her father. Of the 3.2 million that Temple earned she only had 44,000 dollars in her bank account (CNN). “I have no regrets about my father losing most of my money..” (Taylor). Temple forgave her father and to add on, was still grateful for the thousands of dollars she still received. Contrary to other people she had no grudge against her father, forgave him, and showed gratitude for the money she did