Ashley Rose Orr as Shirley Temple

Connie Britton as Gertrude Temple

Colin Friels as George Temple

Hinton Battle as Bill Bojangles Robinson

John Diedrich as Sheehan

Steven Vidler as Darryl F. Zanuck

Zoe Bertram as Mrs. Pelucci

Emily Hart as Teen Shirley Temple

Ben Mendelsohn as Alexander Hall

Lucy Taylor as Amelia Earhart

Jerome Ehlers as John Ford

Nicholas Hammond as Adolphe Menjou

Mark Mitchell as Griff

Joe Petruzzi as David O. Selznick

Nathan Phillips as Hugh

Randall Berger as Bank President

Frank Gallacher as Schenk

William Gluth as Lionel Barrymore

Paul Craig as Simon Lee

Tony Farrell as Henry Hathaway

Daniel Gostolow as Dancer

Don Halbert as Wright

Ron Kamien as Victor McLaglen

Brian Lipson as Cobb

John O'May as Louis B. Mayer

Shane McNamara as Dr. Madsen

Russell Menzies as Dancer

Stewart Morritt as B.P. Schulberg

Jessica Napier as Klammie

Bruce Roberts as Gorney

Kenneth Radley as Adolph Zukor