First serial to the National Enquirer Movie/Entertainment Book Club selection. It's a funny, poignant look at the price of fame, studded with sparkling on- and off-the-set anecdotes. She ends this Hollywood memoir in 1954 with the birth of their second daughter, thus omitting her recent career as a diplomat and stateswoman. Divorced and on the rebound, she fell for a pineapple company employee, Charlie Black, to whom she has been married ever since. Life was a ``daily joyous contagion of filmmaking,'' from which she partially rebelled by marrying, at age 17, Jack Agar, a hard-drinking army man. Her fretful parents feared she would be kidnapped. She had to submit weekly urine samples to satisfy Lloyd's of London, underwriters of her pricey insurance policies. Claudia Kalb (Goodreads Author), Pablo Picasso (Contributor), Shirley Temple Black (Contributor) 4.04 avg rating 145 ratings published 2021 6 editions. Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers. Studio bigwigs who molded her image demanded that her 14-year-old bust be bound flat. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Fox's cleverly worded movie contracts, poorly understood by her father, held a financial truncheon over her curly head. In this candid, poised, resilient autobiography, Shirley Temple Black tells what it was like to be a child star adored by millions during the Depression '30s and the 1940s.
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