Shirley Temple(1928-2014)
- Actress
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Shirley Temple was easily the most popular and famous child star of all
time. She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon
progressed to super stardom. Shirley could do it all: act, sing and
dance and all at the age of five! Fans loved her as she was bright,
bouncy and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of
dollars' worth of products that had her likeness on them. Dolls,
phonograph records, mugs, hats, dresses, whatever it was, if it had her
picture on there they bought it. Shirley was box-office champion for
the consecutive years 1935-36-37-38, beating out such great grown-up
stars as Clark Gable,
Bing Crosby,
Robert Taylor,
Gary Cooper and
Joan Crawford. By 1939, her
popularity declined. Although she starred in some very good movies like
Since You Went Away (1944)
and the
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947),
her career was nearing its end. Later, she served as an ambassador to
Ghana and Czechoslovakia. It was once guessed that she had more than 50
golden curls on her head.
