Shirley Temple

But Murdoch’s oldest son, Lachlan, who serves as chief executive of Fox, insisted his company hold onto the prime real estate where Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe and Mel Brooks once worked.

Shirley Temple was a neighbor, and Harpo Marx was a friend, as was George Gershwin, who was also his tennis partner.

But Mr. Soboroff’s greatest discovery with these machines — and others, including typewriters belonging to Maya Angelou, Tennessee Williams, John Lennon and Shirley Temple — was a historical connection to great people.

With Naíma, it was not like Shirley Temple, where there’s a unique first take and you know immediately that she’s a gem.

She prays for God to give her blue eyes, believing that if she looked like Shirley Temple, she would be treated with loving kindness instead of indifference.