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EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Marty Tudor has been working with the family estate of Shirley Temple and will have access to the rights of the child actress-turned Ghana and Czechoslovakia ambassador across streaming, film, stage and more. There are also two unpublished autobiographies by Temple which Tudor is helping the estate get published.<\/p>\n The life of Temple, who was discovered dancing in a theater lobby by Fox Film songwriter\u00a0Jay Gorney, is largely an untapped IP; one prolific adaptation of her life was the 2001 Disney Channel movie, Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story. That was based on Temple\u2019s autobiography of the same name and it starred Connie Britton.<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Tudor is an industry vet, who managed the careers of Paula Abdul and Jon Cryer,\u00a0and of late has been behind a series of Hologram concert shows starting in 2018 with performances by the late Maria Callas, Roy Orbison, and Whitney Houston. His Orbison-Buddy Holly hologram tour<\/a> was booked for 58 dates while Houston\u2019s was a 36-date tour in Europe. Tudor\u2019s credits include the Cryer movie Hiding Out, the 1995 TV movie Sahara, the 2004 TV special Carol Burnett: Let\u2019s Bump Up the Lights, and the 2005 Disney TV movie, Once Upon a Mattress starring Burnett, Zooey Deschanel and Tracey Ullman.<\/p>\n Temple began her film career in 1931. The 1934 movie Bright Eyes put her on the map as singing child star with her signature ditty \u201cOn the Good Ship Lollipop\u201d. In 1935, she received a miniature Juvenile Oscar. She did segue to roles as a teenager, notably starring opposite Cary Grant in 1947\u2019s The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer which won an Oscar for Sidney Sheldon\u2019s adapted screenplay. Sheldon would go on to create the 1960s hit series I Dream of Jeannie and the 1979-early 1980s series Hart to Hart. Temple\u2019s last movie was the 1949 comedy A Kiss for Corliss opposite David Niven. She hosted Shirley Temple\u2019s Storybook from 1958-1961 before beginning her diplomatic career in 1969. Her friends included former FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover who gifted her a tear gas pen at the age of 20 to help protect her against any death threats. She also befriended Amelia Earhart; the duo reportedly known for their discussions about feminism, Hamlet and chewing gum. Temple as a child learned geography by tracing Earhart\u2019s flights.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s so much more to\u00a0American icon\u00a0Shirley Temple\u2019s life that people aren\u2019t aware of. She was the\u00a0US delegate in the United Nations,\u00a0a\u00a0female Ambassador to Ghana and Czechslovakia, she was a breast cancer survivor, she fought sexism as the first female US Chief of Protocol. What appeals to me,\u00a0as a father of a daughter,\u00a0is that\u00a0Shirley\u00a0continues to be\u00a0an amazing\u00a0inspiration and\u00a0role model for young girls. We see a lot of kid actors who go the wrong way, she did not.\u00a0 There\u2019s an amazing\u00a0human being here\u00a0with a big story who gave back\u00a0as opposed to a pop star\u00a0in it for the glory,\u201d Tudor tells Deadline.<\/p>\n The Temple Black family tells Deadline in a statement: \u201cAs the 100th anniversary of our Mom\u2019s\u00a0birthday\u00a0approaches, we are so pleased at the idea of sharing with the world the lesser-known second half of her incredible life story. \u00a0She often observed that \u2018the Little Girl opened the door\u2019, but then our Mom stepped through it, confident, courageous, authentic \u2013 all grown up.\u201d <\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE: Marty Tudor has been working with the family estate of Shirley Temple and will have access to the rights of the child actress-turned Ghana and Czechoslovakia ambassador across streaming, film, stage and more. There are also two unpublished autobiographies by Temple which Tudor is helping the estate get published. 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