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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

There were always 56 curls in Shirley Temple's hair.

Her mom put those curls in ...Surely a monumental task on a fidgity three-year-old!

Temple’s mother, Gertrude Temple, a woman who had her own desires for a career in entertainment, enrolled her daughter in dancing lessons when she was barely 3. But when her daughter shot to fame, she was right there with her. Temple’s mother styled her daughter’s hair in pin curls for each feature film. Every hairdo had exactly 56 curls, no more, no less. Temple told The Times in 1989 that her “super mother ... kept my head on straight.”