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* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Often (but not always) played these in her films.
* [[If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You]]: In ''Poor Little Rich Girl'', Temple's character Barbara is forced to eat spinach, and says something along the lines of this. Barbara even performs a song on the radio based around this.
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Some contemporary critics accused the producers of her films of exploiting her as this. As British film critic Graham Greene said in his review of ''Wee Willie Winkie''
** Some of her earliest roles weren't quite as innocent -- the characters she played in the pre-[[Hays Code]] [[w:Baby Burlesks|''Baby Burlesks'']] shorts like 1933's ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6KnDpyEH8 Polly Tix in Washington]'' often left innocence far behind. In her autobiography Temple herself described her character in ''Polly Tix'' as "a strumpet on the payroll of the Nipple Trust and Anti-Castor Oil Lobby. Mine was the task of seducing a newly arrived bumpkin senator".
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: She wore a white rabbit fur coat in one movie, and that's been the most common real fur choice for girls' coats since.
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