Bostn Bobs list on spanking scenes in mainstream movies writes about that Shirley Temple film:
Captain January (1936) Guy Kibbee, Shirley Temple: JF
As watching the movie proves (it is watcheable via youtube under http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uVt_QHj1c and the following 7 parts) there is no such scene in this movie.
According to today’s knowledge Shirley Temple never was spanked in one of her movies (although being often spanked in real life as she claims herself), but often posted for publicity stills on that subject.
Nevertheless there is, as the clip (discovered by Cinndunc. thanks) shows, a spanking threat in the film, which maybe led to the movie being…
…wrongly reported.
No, there was a spanking in at least one Shirley Temple film. (A proper one, the kid seemed to get playful swats left, right and centre, although I can't give clips. Or even film names.) But there was one in the first version of Wee Willy Winkie, which got edited out. SO maybe the same happened to other Shirley Temple movies. I'm pretty sure the picture at the bottom of the page on each page of the blog is from Little Miss Broadway, which was another Temple film. But don't quote me on that
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