Perhaps belongs more to the past than to retro review | Shirley Temple Storybook Collection 6-pk

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	• Shirley Temple Storybook Collection 6-pk Shirley Temple, Martin Landau Legend Films, 2008 average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Surely Shirley!

As the product's name suggests, the Shirley Temple Storybook Collection contains previously unavailable episodes from the star's short-lived fairytale TV series, The Shirley Temple Show. Shirley serves as your endearing host and navigator as the hottest stars of the `60s parade through several DVDs of familiar and less-known fables and fairy tales. Several notes to the prospective buyer: Shirley is a fully grown young woman by this time, so please don't go into this expecting an adorable little girl. Secondly, although Shirley hosts every episode and is occasionally engaged as a minor role, she is not the star in these features--that job is delegated to luminaries such as Landau and Moorehead.

That said; this DVD pack is an excellent opportunity for the avid Shirley Temple fan to expand their collection with material that hadn't been available for nearly fifty years. Fans would also enjoy the opportunity to see the star in her later years, since we all too-often neglect that phase of her career in favor of our idealized childhood image of the actress. In any event, this pack is an excellent value for the money and an equally excellent way to expose children to a Disney-free version of popular stories (because why should one company have a monopoly on your children's minds?)

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Perhaps belongs more to the past than to retro review

I bought this collection on the strength of my very fond memories of one of the stories in this collection (with Shirley as the Mermaid). I have to say I was disappointed to see this show again. Was my imagination so great back then that I imagined scenes that really were never there? Apparently so!! Either that, or this is an edited copy!

Things that did not bother me at all as a child bother me a LOT now as an adult -- like poor stage makeup and theatrical acting on film. I saw too much theater here, making it all seem more "fake." I have looked at the beginnings of two or three stories in this collection but could not bring myself to finish any of them (except the one about the mermaid which disappointed me so). I'll try another one or two and then I will probably give the whole collection to Goodwill. Sorry, Shirley. I'll always love you anyway!!!!

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Satisfied

This product was most likely low budget but to be honest with you it is actually enjoyable to watch. Basically its similar to Barney or similar show 6 disks with 2 one hour shows on them. Many old timer comedians such as Agnes Morehead (from what some of us remember as bewitched)and others of the 1961 timeframe. Some might like it only for the value of seeing an adult Shirley Temple. Otherwise great for the kids without the going green mentality by most shows now a days. I recommend it for all Shirley Temple fans, past and present.

From the personal library of Shirley Temple, this special six-disc DVD compilation features eleven never-before-released one-hour episodes from her memorable 1961 TV series, The Shirley Temple Show. The storybook collection contains timeless children s tales from the world s most enduring authors and features legendary stars like Martin Landau, Agnes Moorehead and Jonathan Winters. This six disc compilation features the following episodes: House of Seven Gables, The Terrible Clockman, Land of Oz, The Reluctant Dragon, Madeline, The Princess and the Goblins, Pippi Longstocking, Kim, The Little Mermaid, Winnie the Pooh, and Babes in Toyland.

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