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April 23, 1928 (1928-04-23)

Shirley Jane Temple

John Agar (1945–1950, divorced)

Charles Alden Black (1950–2005, his death)

Actress

"The Red Skelton Show" (1 episode, 1963)

"Shirley Temple's Storybook" (12 episodes, 1958-1961)

A Kiss for Corliss (1949)

The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)

Adventure in Baltimore (1949)

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)

Fort Apache (1948)

That Hagen Girl (1947)

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Honeymoon (1947)

American Creed (1946)

Kiss and Tell (1945)

I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Since You Went Away (1944)

Miss Annie Rooney (1942)

Kathleen (1941)

Young People (1940)

The Blue Bird (1940)

Susannah of the Mounties (1939)

The Little Princess (1939)

Just Around the Corner (1938)

Little Miss Broadway (1938)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Heidi (1937)

Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

Stowaway (1936)

Dimples (1936)

Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)

Captain January (1936)

The Littlest Rebel (1935)

Curly Top (1935)

Our Little Girl (1935)

The Little Colonel (1935)

Bright Eyes (1934)

Now and Forever (1934)

Baby Take a Bow (1934)

Now I'll Tell (1934)

Little Miss Marker (1934)

Change of Heart (1934)

Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)

Managed Money (1934)

As the Earth Turns (1934) (uncredited)

Mandalay (1934) (scenes deleted)

Carolina (1934) (uncredited)

Pardon My Pups (1934)

What's to Do? (1933)

Merrily Yours (1933)

Kid 'in' Africa (1933)

To the Last Man (1933) (uncredited)

Dora's Dunking Doughnuts (1933)

Polly Tix in Washington (1933)

The Kid's Last Fight (1933)

Out All Night (1933)

Kid in Hollywood (1933)

Glad Rags to Riches (1933)

New Deal Rhythm (1933) (uncredited)

The Pie-Covered Wagon (1932)

The Red-Haired Alibi (1932)

War Babies (1932)

Runt Page (1932) (as The Baby Stars)

Kid's Last Stand (1932)

Writer

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001) (TV) (book)

As Herself

12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2006) (TV)

Hollywood Legends: Elizabeth Taylor and Shirley Temple (2001)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Legends (1999) (TV)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998) (TV)

The 70th Annual Academy Awards 1998 (TV) (uncredited)

Wogan (1 episode, 1989)

Tournament of Roses Parade (1989) (TV)

Entertainment Tonight (1 episode, 1988)

The 56th Annual Academy Awards 1984 (TV)

Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Gala (1977) (TV)

"V.I.P.-Schaukel" (1 episode, 1975)

Parkinson (1 episode, 1972)

Shirley Temple v Praze (1969)

"Shirley Temple's Storybook" (26 episodes, 1958-1961)

The 33rd Annual Academy Awards 1961 (TV)

"The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" (3 episodes, 1958-1959)

"The Ed Sullivan Show" (1 episode, 1954)

Our Girl Shirley (1942)

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 1 (1938)

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 9 (1938)

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937) (uncredited)

The Hollywood Gad-About (1934)

Academy Awards

1935 Juvenile Award In grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934.


National Board of Review, USA

1992 Career Achievement Award


Screen Actors Guild Awards

2006 Life Achievement Award


Walk of Fame

Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture At 1500 Vine Street.

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Perhaps the most famous and talented of the child stars Hollywood has produced - a children's drink is even named after her - Shirley Temple began her career in 1932, appearing in a series of one-reel comedies for Educational Pictures. A truly precocious child, her sweet, startlingly doll-like features, complete with dimples and curls, enhanced the appeal of her acting, dancing, and singing abilities. She appeared in bit and minor roles in many films, mostly shorts, during 1933, finally catching the attention of talent scouts at both Fox Film Corporation and Paramount Pictures. Her ascent to stardom began when she was featured in the song-and-dance number "Baby, Take a Bow" in the Fox Film Corporation musical Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) with James Dunn, with whom she would be paired in several subsequent pictures. By 1935, she was Fox's biggest star, appearing in the sentimental comedies Our Little Girl, Curly Top, The Little Colonel, and The Littlest Rebel - the latter two being Civil War-era dramas that featured her in complex, syncopated dance numbers with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, which she executed to near perfection. By 1938, she was the top-grossing U.S. box-office star.


Temple's massive popularity resulted in the creation of product tie-ins, including dolls, a line of dresses, movie novelizations, coloring books, and sheet music of film songs, among them "On the Good Ship Lollipop" (Bright Eyes,1934), "Animal Crackers in My Soup" (Curly Top, 1935), and "Goodnight, My Love" (Stowaway, 1936). By 1940, Temple's box-office appeal had begun to decline, and thus her period of greatest popularity coincided with the Great Depression. Even so, she appeared in some successful pictures as a teenager in the 1940s, including Since You Went Away and I'll Be Seeing You (both 1944), The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), and Fort Apache (1948), in which she appeared with her first husband, John Agar, whom she had married at age seventeen. Temple's autobiography, Child Star: An Autobiography, was published in 1988; it in turn became the basis of a biopic, Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001).

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."

Breast cancer survivor.

Actresses Shirley Jones and Shirley MacLaine were both named after her.

Has a cocktail named after her. The "Shirley Temple" is a non-alcoholic drink also known as Grenadine Lemon.

In a 1988 interview with Larry King, she stated that out of the $3 million she generated for 20th Century Fox she only saw $45,000 in her trust fund.

Her childhood home is located at 231 Rockingham Avenue, Brentwood, California.

Salary

Fort Apache (1948) $110,000

Since You Went Away (1944) $2,200 (per week)

Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) $75/week

Pardon My Pups (1934) $1,000/wk+$35,000 bonus at the end of each film to be held in trust until contract is over+$250/wk for her mother

Kid in Hollywood (1933) $150/week

The Red-Haired Alibi (1932) $50 (two days)