Countryman, who billed as the child actor Johnny Russell appeared in films with Barbara Stanwyck, Tyrone Power, Shirley ... brother of Temple's Mytyl, in the fantasy film The Blue Bird (1940 ...
But this year Shirley Temple stole into millions of U. S. homes on Christmas Eve, twinkling after Happiness in a wide-eyed episode from Maeterlinck’s The Blue Bird. She said pretty Merrys to ...
From left: Johnny Russell, Shirley Temple and Jessie Ralph in the 1940 film ‘The Blue Bird.’ One of two kids, John Russell Countryman was born in Brooklyn on Jan. 25, 1933. His father ...