Uncommonly early and just terrific 8x10-inch black and white portrait for 1937's Heidi, warmly signed and inscribed in green fountain pen for some friends when she was about 8 years old. In good condition for its age, with some light edgewear and slight rounding of the corners, and accompanied by a letter from the third-party authentication service P.S.A./D.N.A. Bright, bouncy, impossibly cheerful Shirley Temple was easily the most popular and famous child star of all-time. Entering films at age 3, she acted, sang and danced her way into millions of hearts in classic films like Stand Up and Cheer! (1934), Little Miss Marker (1934), Baby Take a Bow (1934), Bright Eyes (1934), Curly Top (1935), Captain January (1936), Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), Dimples (1936), Heidi (1937), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), The Little Princess (1939), and, in adolescence, Since You Went Away (1944), I'll Be Seeing You (1944), and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947). After phasing out of her movie career, she later served as an ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. 

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