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16" (41 cm.) x 13". The heavy cardboard sign is hand lettered "Shirley Temple's Pie Factory" with added lettering "Sold Out". Included is a studio photograph of Shirley leaning dejectedly on a counter with a few coins in front of her and with this sign. She wrote about this in her 1988 autobiography, Child Star, noting that on the Fox Studio lots, Jonesy the propman "put me in business with a garishly painted handcart. Under an overhead billboard proclaiming "Shirley Temple's Pie Factory" he stocked several dozen small fruit tarts obtained free from the commissary bakery. A more perfect venture is hard to imagine. No start-up cost. No cost for inventory. Nobody entered or left [the sound-stage door] without buying and paying. Cash only, no credit."