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How could Rebecca (or anyone else) sing a medley of her greatest hits on her first-ever radio broadcast?

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That's what I thought. That Shirley....er I mean surely belongs in the 'Goofs' section under 'plot holes'.

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Yes, everybody understands they were actually hits from earlier Shirley Temple movies. Point is, in this movie Temple was portraying an orphan farm girl unknown to radio audiences until her initial broadcast. Therefore makes no sense at all for her to wrap up first show with a medley of her (Rebecca's) greatest hits. Can't have hits if no one's ever heard you sing before. Movie is called Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm, not Shirley Temple Of Sunnybrook Farm.

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Miriam, I'm so glad you took my advice and posted that goof. I could tell it was you, because only a Webster would know the difference between "who" and "whom".

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Alright already, you've made your point twice! The point we were trying to make was that in this particular movie it was REBECCA, not Shirley who was making her professional debut, and starting off with a medley of her "greatest hits". That's all I'll say about the matter.

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What could be sillier than people trying to "make perfect sense" out of an old Shirley Temple movie? Such gaps in credibility as Shirley singing her "movie hits" in a movie where she is an "unknown" are there because 1938 audiences LOVED every minute of it...and most of us still do. I'll bet if you dissect things a little more, you MIGHT find something else that wouldn't be possible in real life. Somebody has been watching too much "reality" TV - and probably believing it.

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It's a medley of "her" greatest hits, not the record company's. We all have our own greatest hits.

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