According to Shirley Temple, her co-star in Alla ricerca della felicità (1940), in her autobiography
"Child Star," she was killed after a lighted birthday candle at home
ignited her dress and burned her to death. Her five older brothers
acted as pallbearers while a graveside quartet sung her favorite song
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from Il mago di Oz (1939) when she was interred at
Forest Lawn Cemetery. Her burial shroud was the unborn child toga from
her role in Alla ricerca della felicità (1940).