FORT APACHE MOVIE CAST - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH 1987 CO-SIGNED BY: SHIRLEY TEMPLE, JOHN AGAR - HFSID 295752

FORT APACHE MOVIE CAST: SHIRLEY TEMPLE and JOHN AGAR
Shown with John Wayne and Henry Fonda in a still from the film. Temple, married to Agar when the movie was filmed, has signed two decades later as Shirley Temple Black.
Photograph signed: "John Agar", "Shirley Temple Black". B/w, 10x8. Both signers are shown with John Wayne and Henry Fonda in movie still from Fort Apache (1948). The most popular child actress in history, SHIRLEY TEMPLE (1928-2014) had a succession of hit films in the late 1930s, including Stand Up and Cheer, Bright Eyes, Curly Top, Dimples and Heidi as well as The Littlest Rebel. The child actress, known for her cute curls and adorable dimples, earned a special Academy Award in 1934 "in grateful recognition to her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment". Moderately successful as a teenage star in Miss Annie Rooney (1942) and Since You Went Away (1944), Temple saw her acting career decline thereafter, probably because the public preferred to remember her as an adorable child. She later hosted two TV series, The Shirley Temple Storybook and Shirley Temple Show (1958-1960). After running unsuccessfully for Congress, Shirley Temple Black (she was married to her second husband, businessman Charles Black from 1950 until his death in 2005), enjoyed a second successful career as a diplomat in the 1970s, serving as a U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., to Ghana and to Czechoslovakia, as well as Chief of Protocol at the State Department. Temple, who was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1998, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2006. An apparently rising star in such war and Western films as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), handsome actor JOHN AGAR (1921-2002) was largely consigned to low budget science fiction movies after his divorce from Shirley Temple in 1949 (the 27-year-old actor had married 17-year-old Temple in 1945 after a whirlwind courtship). He later appeared in three Westerns with friend John Wayne (1969-1971) and was often sought for film and TV character roles. Temple and Agar were husband and wife when they made this movie, and they also got married in the film, but Temple has signed in 1987 with her second married name. Agar also remarried in 1950, to model Loretta Combes in 1951. Slightly soiled and creased at bottom left corner. Otherwise, fine condition.