Thursday, February 27, 2014

Enjoy MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, MPG, WMV, FLV on Asus Transformer Book T100

Description: Follow this simple tutorial to learn how to convert and play MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, MPG, WMV, FLV on Asus Transformer Book T100 anywhere you want.


"I have many videos which some were downloaded form Youtube, and some are Tivo recordings. Some of which we frequently enjoy viewing have been copied to SD cards to be played in our PC's. However I‘ve not had good experience getting these videos to play on Asus Transformer Book T100. Any solution?"



ASUS Transformer Book T100 is a 10.1-inch ultra-portable and detachable HD display than can be used as a standalone Windows 8.1 tablet. Featuring a sleek design and durable finish, Transformer Book T100 is not only one of the lightest ultra-portables currently available at just 1.07kg, but also one of the lightest 10-inch tablets around, at 550g. Transformer Book T100 is great for watching videos, however, the Asus T100 only supports very limited video formats.

One of the effective solutions is to convert them to T100 supported video format in advance. This guide explains how you can get all these different video file types and formats to play on Asus Transformer Book T100.

Requirements:


Your Asus Transformer Book T100
A computer running either Windows or Mac
Pavtube Video Converter software (Windows version download here; Mac version download here)

Guide on How to Convert all Videos to Asus Transformer Book T100 playable video

Step 1. Launch the best Asus Transformer Book T100 Video Converter and click add video icon to import the movie source from video folder to the software. When you first load Tivo videos, it will ask you to enter put the Media Access Key.



Step 2. Click on the dropdown menu of "Format" and then move your pointer to Asus, from where you can get the best preset profile for your Asus Transformer Book T100: "ASUS Transformer Pad 300 Video(*.mp4)".






Step 3. Click the "Convert" button; it will convert all kinds of videos to MP4 for Asus Transformer Book T100.

After the conversion, get the output files via clicking on "Open" button effortlessly and then transfer and play videos on Asus Transformer Book T100 with high quality. Enjoy your time.

Read more:

Convert Blu-ray/DVD movies to Asus Transformer Book T100
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Sync/Tranfer Digital Copy to Asus Transformer Book T100 for watching

From: http://pc-mac-compatibility-issues.blogspot.com/2014/02/get-video-playable-on-transformer-t100.html

Experience and view Blu-ray movies on Asus MeMO Pad Smart 10, Pad HD 7, Pad ME172V

Summary: In this guide, you will learn how to rip & convert Blu-ray to Asus MeMO Pad Smart 10, Pad HD 7, Pad ME172V mp4 videos so that you can experience and view Blu-ray movies with Asus Memo Pac with the best video/audio quality.








First, let's see the comparison chart for Asus Memo Pad:








According to my own experience, Asus Memo Pad Tablets are the best gadget for people both for business and entertainment. I like this product. Very good quality eh .. The tablet is trying to do everything pretty even in this limit the capabilities and I can say that this tab is really affordable compare to other brands.

Below are my questions when testing theses tablet:


Question 1:

“My daughter is 7 year old this year. She like watching cartoons very much. I plan to transfer Blu-ray movie “Wicked Blood 2014” and “Jamesy Boy” to my Memo Pad Smart 10, let her watch the movies before sleeping. But hardly worse, Memo Pad can not read the Blu-ray disc. Could you recommend a useful and effective way?”

Best Answer:

The Memo Pad only supports limited video format like the MP4 format with H.264, MPEG-4 video codec. To solve you quesion, you need to rip Blu-ray to MeMo Pad Smart 10 supported mp4 format first, now please refer the steps:


1. Insert Blu-ray disc into BD-Rom.

2. Install Blu-ray to Memo Pad Converter, load your Blu-ray disc.

3. Choose output format.

4. Start Blu-ray to Memo Pad conversion

5. Click “Open” button to transfer Blu-ray to Memo Pad

That’s all, it’s so simple.

Question 2:

“I’d like to convert movies (Blu-rays and ISO images of Blu-rays) to a proper format like MP4 so I can watch them on my new Memo Pad HD 7 Tablet. I am currently experiencing a lag between the audio and video, the sound is not in sync. I’ve browsed but cannot figure out why. I have tried other converters but get the same results.”
Best Answer:

I used to come across same problem till I find Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper which output excellent videos for playback, and I never had video and auio sync issue ever again.

Question 3:

“Will I have to use an external Blu-ray drive whenever I want to watch Blu-ray movies on Memo Pad ME172V? Or how can I freely Blu-rays on Memo Pad without frequently changing BD disc?”

Best Answer:


There is another easier way to playing Blu-ray on Memo Pad ME172V without DVD drive, that is to rip off Blu-ray disc/ISO/folder protection, and convert the decrypted Hottest Blu-ray movie to Memo Pad playable MP4 format with best video settings. And here Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper is such a tool to help you complete this task.

(Get Blu-ray to Memo Pad Ripper for Mac if you are Mac users, well support OS X 10.9 Mavericks!)

Detailed steps: How to convert and transfer Blu-ray to Asus MeMO Pad Smart 10, Pad HD 7, Pad ME172V playable MP4 format?

First download the apps



(Note: please download a dmg file if you are Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users.)


Step 1. Load Blu-ray source.

Now install and run Blu-ray to Memo Pad Converter, insert your Blu-ray disc into your BD drive. Click the “Load file(s)” button to import the Blu-ray movies to the program.

If you have already saved the Blu-ray as Blu-ray Folder onto your computer, you can also import Blu-ray Folder, ISO files. Your ISO image file would be recognized automatically so there’s no need to run virtual drive to mount it any more.



This software does not only support Blu-ray disc/folder/ISO, but also able to convert DVD disc/folder/ISO/IFO files to MP4 for playing on MeMO Pad Smart 10, Pad HD 7, Pad ME172V.

Step 2. Choose MP4 format for Memo Pad.

Click “Format” bar, you can get optimized videos for your Memo Pad under “Asus -> ASUS MeMO Pad Series Video(*.mp4)”. The output videos could fit on your Memo Pad perfectly. Or you can enter “MeMo Pad” in the small search box at bottom right corner.



You can also choose the audio/video quality, frame rate, and other parameters according to your own needs by clicking the “Settings” button. (Optional)

Step 3. Select the output folder.

Specify an output folder on your computer to save the output files. Click “Browse” button to choose the path where you want to save the output files in.

Step 4. Start Blu-ray to Memo Pad MP4 conversion.

Just click “Convert” to start conversion. The converting speed depends on the file size of Blu-ray movies and your CPU.


Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper takes advantage of the NVIDIA CUDA technology and AMD APP technology, and the conversion speed can be increased up to 6 times faster than ever before.

When the Blu-ray to Memo Pad conversion finished, you can get the converted Blu-ray rips in .mp4 format by tapping the “Open” button. Now, freely transfer Blu-ray to Memo Pad and watch movies on Asus MeMO Pad Smart 10, Pad HD 7, Pad ME172V anytime and anywhere you like.

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Best way to play AVI videos on Asus MeMO Pad HD 7

From: http://pc-mac-compatibility-issues.blogspot.com/2014/02/play-blu-ray-on-asus-memo-pad.html

Monday, February 24, 2014

Convert Blu-ray/DVD Digital Copy Movies to Asus Transformer Book T100

Summary: In below article you can learn about how to legally get rid of DRM protection from Digital Copy to freely play them on Asus Transformer Book T100 when away with work or going travelling anywhere you like.

The Transformer Book T100 is a 10 inch Windows tablet with a detachable keyboard station which lets you use the system like a laptop. I spent most of my time using the Transformer Book T100 as a laptop, surf the web on the couch, read an eBook, watch a video, or play a casual game, and the device was able to handle both scenarios with ease. It has a faster processor than any netbook to date, offers long battery life, has a relatively high-resolution display, which makes it better for watching videos on Transformer Book T100.




Perhaps you are a video lover and collected many Blu-ray or DVD disc at home, then how to get digital copy files from Blu-ray/DVD playable on your Transformer Book T100 for enjoying when you are away from home?

Literally, Digital Copies are DRM protected. Usually it will be attached as an independent disc (DVD) with its code in your Blu-ray set; it requires a code to be playback on Windows, Mac, IOS devices or authorized tablets. To watch DRM movies on your Asus Transformer Book T100, you'll have to remove the DRM protection from Digital Copy first.

With Pavtube ChewTune - a top Digital Copy to Transformer Converter (Reach the Mac version here: Digital Copy to Tranformer Converter for Mac), you can easily accomplish this goal painless.

The professional DRM Converter can legally remove DRM protection from BD/DVD Digital Copy movies, and convert Digital Copy movies to Tranformer supported format like MP4. Besides, this Digital Copy movie converter can also convert iTunes M4V, Amazon WMV, BBC iPlayer videos to MKV, AVI, WMV, MOV, M4V, MP4, FLV, etc. so it is an useful tool for your all portable devices, like Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Tab 3, Nexus 7 2, Nexus 10, Sony Xperia Z1, LG G-Pad, Moto X, Asus Transformer Prime and more.

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Before converting:

1. Transfer digital copy to computer.

2. Get DRM removal tool installed on your PC/Mac:

Tutorials: Convert Blu-ray/DVD Digital Copy Movies to Asus Transformer Book T100


Step 1. Load source files.

Run this Pavtube Chewtune as the best DRM Removal ; load Digital Copy file. Drag and drop your videos to it directly, or you can click icon to import them as below.


Step 2. Choose proper format for Transformer Book T100.

Click "Format" bar and select an output format for the Transformer Book T100, .g. H.264 .mp4 for conversion. Basically both the "Common Video >> H.264 Video (*.mp4)" and "Asus" >> ASUS Transformer Pad 300 Video(*.mp4)" are suitable formats for Asus Transformer Book T100.



Step 3. Change video specs (Optional).

Click "Settings" to enter Profile Settings window, you can find settings for video size, codec, bitrate and frame rate, all according to your own needs. Usually the default settings should be good enough.

Step 4. Start Digital Copy movies to Transformer Book T100 conversion.

Now click the big red icon to start converting Digital Copy movies to Transformer Book T100. The ChewTune will automatically start to play this video; this windows cannot be removed or closed during this period.

In the meanwhile, it will start to record this video in MP4 real-time. The conversion time is equal to the video length itself; you can do other tasks during the converting the process.

Note: the system volume could turn off temporally during this period; no worries and do not touch it to get perfect DRM removed video.

After the conversion, click "Open output folder" to quick locate the converted video.

Connnect the Book T100 Tablet to your PC with USB cable, and then you can get Digital Copy movies onto your Transformer Book T100 tablet so you can enjoy them anytime and anywhere! This workaround works with Windows 8.1/8/7 as well, of course.

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From: http://pc-mac-compatibility-issues.blogspot.com/2014/02/convert-digital-copy-to-transformer-book-t100.html 

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Keep the 3D Blu-ray Disc "Jack the Giant Slayer" on your Hard Drive for watching

Description: Want to keep the 3D Blu-ray Disc "Jack the Giant Slayer" on your Hard Drive for storage? Check out this article to learn how to backup/copy Blu-ray/DVD discs onto hard drive with the best 3D Blu-ray Backup Tool.

In order to be a giant slayer, one must first have giants. Luckily for Jack, played by Nicholas Hoult in Jack the Giant Slayer, he’ll get a chance to earn his moniker by battling Fee, Fye, Foe and/or Fumm. We’ve got a great look at the four named giants from the famous “Jack and the Beanstalk” quatrain in addition to some giants with unfamiliar names (Fallon?) in these newly released posters from the Bryan Singer film.


Jack the Giant Slayer is now in 3D Blu-ray version, it will bring us an imaginative fantasy realm straight into our room without going to the cinema. Need to back up your favourite Blu-rays like "Jack the Giant Slayer" on your hard drive, then you can easily get the 3D movies playback on any device?

At first, to backup Jack the Giant Slayer 3D Blu-ray Disc to Hard Drive, you need to a third-party software to backup Blu-ray discs without sacrificing the picture quality seems to the best choice for you. And for those who rent lots of movie of discs, it is also a great way to copy the discs for future watching.

Here Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper is a professional program in making digital copy of Blu-ray. It can rip the latest 3D/2D Blu-ray and DVD and convert to various video formats for some popular smartphones and tablets as well as editing software. Simple interface and CUDA acceleration will bring you an easy but effective conversion. The following guide will show you detailed steps. (Another two programs can also do the job like ByteCopy and Video Converter Ultimate.)

Now you can have the trial version to try all the functions firstly, and then download the retail version to install it. (Mac users go to get Blu-ray Ripper for Mac).

How to convert/copy Jack the Giant Slayer 3D Blu-ray Disc to Hard Drive for enjoying


1. Import Blu-ray source.

Click "Load file" button to import the inserted Jack the Giant Slayer 3D Blu-ray disc. After few second, it will be imported successfully and you can preview the whole movie in the preview window.

Then, you need to select the subtitle and audio track for output. As blu-ray movie contains multiple audio and subtitle tracks, you could choose your favorite one for output.



Note: Force subtitle can be checked for output so as to help you to read the unknown language and fully enjoy the blu-ray.

2. Choose output format.

Now go to "Format" menu to select output format there. A variety of options are listed such as many portable devices, video editing software, various HD video formats, etc. Choose the one you desired.



Note: You can find the "Directly Copy" option there. It will support to backup 100% intact the blu-ray main movie with all multiple tracks preserved. And you will get one M2TS file for output. If you want to backup blu-ray, it is a good choice for you.



By the way, if you want, you can adjust output video and audio parameters according to your own needs. You can change bitrate, frame rate, channels, etc. Click "Settings" button to set output profiles.

3. Convert Jack the Giant Slayer 3D Blu-ray disc.

Now it's time to start conversion. Click big Convert button on the interface and then you will get a conversion dialogue box to show the exact progress, like time left, estimated size, state and so on.



Note: If you are bothered about waiting for conversion to finish, you can choose to check "shut down computer after conversion". Then just let it alone, you are free to go out to do anything you like.

Now you have copied Jack the Giant Slayer 3D Blu-ray onto your hard drive. With the best 3D Blu-ray Backup and copy tool, you can take your favorite blu-ray anywhere and enjoy them whenever you want to. Just try it now!

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From: http://pc-mac-compatibility-issues.blogspot.com/2014/02/backup-3d-blu-ray-to-hard-drive.html 

Monday, February 17, 2014

Dwonload/Transfer and play Digital Copy movies on Samsung Galaxy S5

Follow this tutorial you will learn an easy way to dwonload/transfer and play Digital Copy movies on Samsung Galaxy S5 by stripping DRM from Digital Copies with some help from top DRM removal tool. 
Samsung Galaxy S5 is probably one of the most-anticipated new handsets expected this year. There are even rumors that the size of the Galaxy S5′s screen will get a bump up this year. Gotta Be Mobile points to a supposed leak from Kipris which suggests that the handset will have a 5.25-inch screen with a higher QHD resolution which will make it ideal for watching movies.




Increasingly popular because of its viewing flexibility, DIGITAL COPY allows consumers to transfer copies of their favorite classic comedy or action-packed films to their iTunes digital library and then view on a Mac or PC, iPod, iPhone or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV. DIGITAL COPY also works with Microsoft Windows Media enabled portable video players. The files are protected by DRM technology (Digital Rights Management).

If you have some Digital Copy movies from Blu-ray/DVD or stored on iTunes and want to transfer Digital Copies to Galaxy S5 for playback, you may have to do some work in advance. Basically Digital Copies all boil down to the DRM which prevents you from playing them on unauthorized devices. Unfortunately, the Android devices have not get a license to play DRM contents, which means digital copy movies will even play on the Infinity.

In order to bring Digital Copies downloads to Samsung Galaxy S5 for playing without problems, you'll need to strip DRM from Digital Copy movies first and convert Digital Copy to Galaxy S5 supported video formats such as MP4. To achieve your goal smoothly, below is a simple tutorial for you, guaranteed to play Digital Copies on Samsung Galaxy S5 effortlessly. Just follow it.

Requirements

Pavtube ChewTune - an easy-to-use yet top-ranking DRM removal software for Android. It supports handling protected movies, TV shows from iTunes, Amazon, Blu-ray/DVD digital copy videos and more. The output video quality is as decent as possible as original. If you are a Mac user, you can use the ChewTune Mac to convert and download Digital Copy movies to Samsung Galaxy S5 on Mac. Just get the right version of the DRM removal tool and follow the below guide to transfer Digital Copies to Samsung Galaxy S5 for playing in just a few clicks!

Before conversion you need first to transfer Digital Copy to computer in Windows Media (.wmv) or iTunes video format (.m4v). If you have no idea about Digital Copy transferring, refer to a detailed guide here. And here we go with the DRM removal process.

How to convert and transfer Digital Copy to Samsung Galaxy S5?

Note:

1. Make sure that your computer is authorized for Digital Copy Movies, which means you can play digital copy movies in your Windows Media Player.

2. Do not close this Audio Driver window when you are installing Pavtube Chewtune.



Step 1: Load Digital Copy Movies.

Run the best Digital Copy to Galaxy Converter; click the "Add Video" icon to load your source Digital Copy Movies.



Step 2: Choose output format.

Click the "Format" bar and select “Samsung Galaxy S III Video (.mp4)” as output format beneath “Samsung” option. This format will exports optimal videos for Galaxy S5 streaming and playing.



Tip:

If you are not satisfied with original set, you could click the "Setting" button to customize the profile settings by yourself.

Step 4: Start Recording and Converting Digital Copy to Galaxy S5.

Hit the "Convert" button at the bottom-right corner of this app's main interface to start Digital Copy Movies to Galaxy S5 conversion.

Note: It would take as long as the source movie length for the conversion process since Pavtube ChewTune records source Digital Copy movies in 1:1 video and audio quality.

When the conversion completes, you can transfer your Digital Copy movies to your Galaxy S5. In this way, you can play Digital Copy Movies on Galaxy S5 and enjoy them anytime and anywhere.

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Source: Bring Digital Copies Downloads to Samsung Galaxy S5 for playing with ease

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

How to convert Blu-ray iso image files to play on iPhone 6 on Mac Mavericks?

This article shows how to rip Blu-ray ISO files to iPhone 6 compatible file on Mac OS X Mavericks with a professional Mac BD ISO to iPhone 6 Ripper.
iPhone 6 Rumors

With more and more rumors on iPhone 6 around the world, we may wonder: What Might iPhone 6 Look Like? Rumors have suggested that Apple could produce two versions of the iPhone 6 in two different sizes ranging from 4.7 to 5.7 inches. Alternatively, researchers from DisplaySearch in Taiwan indicate Apple will give the 4.7-inch screen iPhone 6 a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution, resulting in a 312ppi pixel density rating. As for the 5.7-inch hybrid, DisplaySearch says it may have a 1920 x 1080 pixels, matching just about every 2013 high-end Android phone.



Possible to play Blu-ray iso image files to iPhone 6?

What do you want to enjoy first after you get your new iPhone 6? Watching high definition videos and movies is a good one. For most office staff and business men, it's hard to get round to go to the cinema or theater to enjoy the movies or dramas. Many movie lovers may collected their favorite Blu-ray movies in ISO images for backup. It is a solid choice to get these Blu-ray ISO image files to iPhone 6 for watching whenever and wherever. Better yet, with an up-to-the-minute BD ISO to iPhone 6 ripper software with free lifetime upgrade, you'll start to love it more.

What Makes Blu-ray ISO Playback on iPhone 6 Easier?

In this case, here we recommend you to take a free try on our BD ISO to iPhone 6 Converter for Mac, this is top Mac Blu-ray Ripper for iPhone 6, which can rip latest Blu-ray and DVD discs/floder/ISO/IFO image files to any formats you need on Mac (Mavericks included), such as MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPG, etc. After converting BD/DVD ISO, IFO files to compatible formats, you can transfer the image files to iPhone 6 and other Apple/Android/Windows tablet or smartphone, or other playable devices for freely viewing.

Windows users can reach the ISO to iPhone 6 Converter here. (Both the two programs are 30% off).

Tips: Want to get mp4/mkv/mov files with multiple audio tracks and subtitle streams? Don't miss this Blu-ray Ripper Pro for Mac.

Rip Blu-ray ISO files to iPhone 6 on Mac OS X Mavericks/PC

Step 1: Run this Pavtube BDMagic for Mac, load Blu-ray discs, Blu-ray folder, Blu-ray ISO image files or DVDs.

This program will help you analysis ISO files automatically so that there’s no needto run virtual drive to mount ISO image files any more.

Blu-ray iso to iPhone 6 Converter for Mac

Step 2. Choose Format.

Click“Format” drop-down list, go to choose “iPhone 6 H.264 Full HD 1080P(*.mp4)” from “iPhone” option as the most compatible preset with best video quality for iPhone 6.

best video quality for iPhone 6

Step 3. Customizevideo specs (Optional).

Click “Settings” to free change video resolution, bitrate(quality), frame rate andother settings.

iPhone 6 Video Settings

Note: If you want to get video in smaller size, just turn down the “bitrate”settings.

Step 4. Start Conversion.

You can hit the big red “Convert” to start converting Blu-ray ISO to MP4 with best video settings for iPhone 6 on Mac OS X Mavericks. After the conversion, click “Open output folder” in the conversion window, or “Open” in main interface to quick locatethe converted video.

After getting the converted movies files,you can transfer them to iPhone 6 via iTunes.

If you don’t know how to put and copy video onto iPhone 6, just follow the guide below:

How to transfer/sync movies from computer to iPhone 6?

Here you got it! Now you can freely enjoy Blu-ray ISO movies on Apple iPhone 6 on the go.

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Shirley Temple Black, Hollywood’s Biggest Little Star, Dies at 85




Remembering Shirley Temple Black

In the popular imagination, Shirley Temple Black would always be America’s darling of the Depression years.

Shirley Temple Black, who as a dimpled, precocious and determined little girl in the 1930s sang and tap-danced her way to a height of Hollywood stardom and worldwide fame that no other child has reached, died on Monday night at her home in Woodside, Calif. She was 85.

Her publicist, Cheryl Kagan, confirmed her death.

Mrs. Black returned to the spotlight in the 1960s in the surprising new role of diplomat, but in the popular imagination she would always be America’s darling of the Depression years, when in 23 motion pictures her sparkling personality and sunny optimism lifted spirits and made her famous. From 1935 to 1939 she was the most popular movie star in America, with Clark Gable a distant second. She received more mail than Greta Garbo and was photographed more often than President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Paul Wittreich Franklin, Pa.

God love her for bringing joy to so many people in the 1930's, including me.

The little girl with 56 perfect blond ringlets and an air of relentless determination was so assured that the usually unflappable Adolphe Menjou, her co-star in her first big hit, “Little Miss Marker,” described her as “an Ethel Barrymore at 6” and said she was “making a stooge out of me.”



Shirley Temple Black Dies at 85

Popperfoto/Getty Images

When she turned from a magical child into a teenager, audience interest slackened, and she retired from the screen at 22. But instead of retreating into nostalgia, she created a successful second career for herself.

After marrying Charles Alden Black in 1950, she became a prominent Republican fund-raiser. She was appointed a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969. She went on to win wide respect as the United States ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976, was President Gerald R. Ford’s chief of protocol in 1976 and 1977, and became President George H. W. Bush’s ambassador to what was then Czechoslovakia in 1989, serving there during the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.

After winning an honorary Academy Award at the age of 6 and earning $3 million before puberty, Shirley Temple grew up to be a level-headed adult. At a time when operations for cancer were shrouded in secrecy, Mrs. Black held a news conference in her hospital room after her mastectomy to discuss her experience and to urge women discovering breast lumps not to “sit home and be afraid.” She is widely credited with helping to make it acceptable to talk about breast cancer.

Shirley Jane Temple was born in Santa Monica, Calif., on April 23, 1928. From the beginning, she and her mother, Gertrude, were a team (“I was absolutely bathed in love,” she remembered); her movie career was their joint invention. Her success was a result of both her own charm and her mother’s persistence.

In “Child Star,” her 1988 autobiography, Mrs. Black said her mother had made a “calculated decision” to turn her only daughter into a professional dancer. At a fee of 50 cents a week, Mrs. Temple enrolled 3-year-old Shirley in Mrs. Meglin’s Dance Studio.

In 1932, Shirley was spotted by an agent from Educational Pictures and chosen to appear in “Baby Burlesks,” a series of sexually suggestive one-reel shorts in which children played all the roles. The 4- and 5-year-old children wore fancy adult costumes that ended at the waist. Below the waist, they wore diapers with oversize safety pins. In these heavy-handed parodies of well-known films like “The Front Page” (“The Runt Page”) and “What Price Glory” (“War Babies”), Shirley imitated Marlene Dietrich, Mae West and — wearing an off-the-shoulder blouse and satin garter as a hard-boiled French bar girl in “War Babies” — Dolores del Río.

When any of the two dozen children in “Baby Burlesks” misbehaved, they were locked in a windowless sound box with only a block of ice on which to sit. “So far as I can tell, the black box did no lasting damage to my psyche,” Mrs. Black wrote in “Child Star.” “Its lesson of life, however, was profound and unforgettable. Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble."

“Baby Burlesks” was followed by five two-reel comedies and a year of casting calls and bit-part auditions that which garnered young Shirley half a dozen small roles. By Thanksgiving 1933 she was growing older. She was 5 ½, and in the previous two years she had earned a total of $702.50. Her mother did the sensible thing: she shaved a year off her daughter’s age. Shirley would be shocked to discover, at a party for her 12th birthday in April 1941, that she was actually 13.

Her career began in earnest in 1934, when she was picked to play James Dunn’s daughter in the Fox fantasy “Stand Up and Cheer,” one of many films made during the Depression in which music chases away unhappy reality. She was signed to a two-week contract at $150 a week and told to provide her own tap shoes.

Within an hour of completing her song-and-dance number “Baby, Take a Bow,” she was formally placed under contract to Fox for a year at $150 a week. The studio had an option for seven more years and would pay Gertrude Temple an additional $25 each week to take care of her daughter.

On ‘The Good Ship Lollipop’

In its review of “Stand Up and Cheer” (1934), Variety called Shirley Temple a “surefire potential kidlet star.” She made eight movies in 1934 and moved from potential to full star in February, when Fox lent her to Paramount for “Little Miss Marker,” based on a Damon Runyon story.

Playing a child left with a bookie (Mr. Menjou) as a marker for her father’s gambling debts, Shirley reforms a gang of gamblers, bookies and horse dopers. She would play a similarly wise and maternal miniature adult, dominating the adults around her and solving their problems with unbounded optimism and common sense, in most of her films.

She brought peace to a British regiment fighting rebels in India in “Wee Willie Winkie” (1937) and to white men and Indians in “Susannah of the Mounties” (1939). She was frequently cast as an orphan, the better to show adults how to cope with adversity: her father committed suicide in “Little Miss Marker”; her aviator father crashed and her mother was killed by a car in “Bright Eyes” (1934); she was the sole survivor of a shipwreck in “Captain January” (1936).

“People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog, Rin Tin Tin, and a little girl,” Mrs. Black often said in appraising her success.

It is no surprise that Shirley Temple dolls were the best-selling dolls of the decade (and are valuable collectibles now). In many of her films she was a living doll, adored by entire groups of men: aviators in “Bright Eyes,” a Yankee regiment in “The Little Colonel” (1935).

No Shirley Temple movie was complete without a song — most famously “On the Good Ship Lollipop” and “Animal Crackers in My Soup” — and a tap dance, with partners including George Murphy, Jack Haley and Buddy Ebsen. But her most successful partnership was with the legendary African-American entertainer Bill (Bojangles) Robinson. She may have been the first white actress allowed to hold hands affectionately with a black man on screen, and her staircase dance with Mr. Robinson in “The Little Colonel,” the first of four movies they made together, retains its magic almost 80 years later.

Not everyone was a Shirley Temple fan. The novelist Graham Greene, who was also a film critic, was sued by 20th Century Fox for his review of “Wee Willie Winkie” in the magazine Night and Day, which he edited. In the review, he questioned whether she was a midget and wrote of her “well-shaped and desirable little body” being served up to middle-aged male admirers.

After the failure of “The Blue Bird” (1940), a film version of the Maeterlinck fantasy that Fox had expected to be the bonanza MGM’s “The Wizard of Oz” had been a year earlier, the studio dropped the 12-year-old actress’s contract. Even before the movie was released, her mother had decided it was time for Shirley, who had been educated in a schoolroom at Fox, to go to a real school.

She entered the private Westlake School for Girls in seventh grade, with little idea of how to cope. She had sat on 200 famous laps and found J. Edgar Hoover’s the most comfortable. Amelia Earhart had shared chewing gum with her. She had conversed with Eleanor Roosevelt. The Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood had created the Shirley Temple — a nonalcoholic drink of lemon-lime soda, grenadine and a maraschino cherry — in her honor. (She didn’t care for it.) But her playmates had been few and carefully chosen.

At Westlake, after months of being given the cold shoulder, she decided she might as well be herself. She eventually spent a happy five years there.

What Fox had dropped, MGM picked up eight months later. But the little girl was now entering adolescence. On her first visit to MGM, Mrs. Black wrote in her autobiography, the producer Arthur Freed unzipped his trousers and exposed himself to her. Being innocent of male anatomy, she responded by giggling, and he threw her out of his office.

Curls and Girlish Magic Fade

She made “Kathleen” (1941) for MGM and “Miss Annie Rooney” (1942) for United Artists; played supporting roles for David O. Selznick in two 1944 films, “Since You Went Away” and “I’ll Be Seeing You”; and made “Kiss and Tell” on loan to Columbia in 1945.

But her golden hair had turned brown, and, as the film historian David Thomson observed, she had become “an unremarkable teenager.” After nearly four dozen films, the public had lost interest.

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Bravo! A life superbly lived! May any of us do half as well?Judy c 30 minutes ago

God Bless you, sweet, sweet Shirley. You always made me smile.Timothy M Vaslet 30 minutes ago

I was born in 1960 but remember her well;am blown away to know the tough minded intelligent roles she acted in is truly who she was and will...

By then she was a strong-willed, chain-smoking 17-year-old. Determined to be the first in her Westlake class to become engaged, she had accepted a ring from a 24-year-old Army Air Corps sergeant, John Agar Jr., a few days before her 17th birthday. They were married on Sept. 19, 1945.

Unable to handle being Mr. Shirley Temple, Mr. Agar began drinking excessively. While his wife was appearing in “The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer” with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy and “That Hagen Girl” with Ronald Reagan, Mr. Agar began an acting career of his own. He appeared in several low-budget movies, in support of John Wayne in a few westerns and war films, and on television. But he failed to achieve anything close to her success.

They were divorced in December 1949, a year after the birth of their daughter, Linda Susan. Less than 60 days after her divorce, Miss Temple, 21, met and became engaged to Mr. Black, then the 30-year-old assistant to the president of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, who claimed he had never seen a Shirley Temple movie. They were betrothed after a 12-day courtship. Their marriage lasted almost 55 years, until his death in 2005.

Mr. Black, who was dropped from the San Francisco Social Register for marrying an actress, told a reporter in 1988: “Over 38 years I have participated in her life 24 hours a day through thick and thin, traumatic situations, exultant situations, and I feel she has only one personality. She would be catastrophic for the psychiatric profession. You can wake her up in the middle of the night and she has the same personality everybody knows. What everybody has seen for 60 years is the bedrock.”

Shirley Temple had left the movies for good by Dec. 6, 1950, when she married Mr. Black. A son, Charles Jr., was born in 1952; a daughter, Lori, in 1954. They survive her, as does her daughter, Linda Susan.

During the Korean War, Mrs. Black followed her husband to Washington, where he was stationed at the Pentagon as a Navy lieutenant commander. In later years he would follow her to her diplomatic postings.

Late in the 1950s, with her old movies being shown on television all over America, she briefly returned to show business. From 1958 to 1961 she was the host and an occasional performer on the television series “Shirley Temple’s Storybook” (also known as “The Shirley Temple Show”), an anthology of fairy-tale adaptations.

By the early 1960s she was president of the Multiple Sclerosis Society and co-founder of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, raising funds to fight the disease that struck her brother George. She was representing the federation in Prague on Aug. 21, 1968, when Soviet tanks rolled in and brought a premature end to Alexander Dubcek’s effort to remodel the Communist system.For many years the Black family lived in the San Francisco area, where Mrs. Black was active in civic and community affairs. She worked particularly hard for the development of the San Francisco International Film Festival, but quit the festival’s executive committee in 1966 to protest a decision to show the Swedish film “Night Games,” which she called “pornography for profit.”

A Conservative Republican

Mrs. Black had become interested in politics when she lived in Washington. In 1967 she ran for Congress to fill a seat left vacant by the death of the Republican J. Arthur Younger. She hoped to emulate the California political successes of George Murphy, her dancing partner in “Little Miss Broadway,” who had become a United States senator, and Mr. Reagan, who had become governor.

A backer of the Vietnam War, she lost to a more moderate Republican, Pete McCloskey, in the suburban 11th Congressional District south of San Francisco. It probably did not help that the bands kept playing “On the Good Ship Lollipop” at her campaign stops.

But Mrs. Black pressed on with her goal of a career in public service. In 1969, President Nixon appointed her to the five-member United States delegation to the 24th session of the United Nations General Assembly. She acquitted herself well by all accounts, speaking out about the problems of the aged, the plight of refugees and, especially, environmental problems.
When she was appointed ambassador to Ghana in 1974, some career diplomats were outraged, but State Department officials later conceded that her performance was outstanding.

Among her duties as the government’s chief of protocol was heading a training program for new envoys. She flashed her wit in describing it: “We teach them how to get used to being called Ambassador and having Marines saluting. Then, on Day 3, we tell them what to do if they’re taken hostage.”

When she arrived in Prague as ambassador — a post usually reserved for career diplomats — she discovered that there had been a Shirley Temple fan club there 50 years earlier. Officials brought “Shirleyka” old membership cards to autograph. Having been Shirley Temple was extremely helpful to Shirley Temple Black, she told reporters, “mainly because it provides name identification,” although it had no bearing on her future success or failure. Mrs. Black succeeded beyond almost everyone’s expectations, winning praise during her three years in Prague from, among others, Henry Kissinger, who called her “very intelligent, very tough-minded, very disciplined.” It was a fitting tribute to a woman who had left the screen at 22 saying she had “had enough of pretend.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/arts/shirley-temple-black-screen-star-dies-at-85.html?_r=0

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