1940’s Fun on Netflix: Shirley Temple as a Teenager

Want to brush up on your 1940’s slang and see some good-old jitterbugging? Miss Annie Rooney is a Shirley Temple movie that came out in 1942, the year she turned 14. She plays a starry-eyed girl looking for some romance, but the official description from IMBD...

Teenage slang from the 1940s

I looked at several primary sources to help form the speech patterns of my 1940s characters in my novel, Cinderella’s Dress. I read diaries, letters, and vintage magazines, and tried to stay true to the research. Here is my little video using VideoMakerFX that I...