Shirley Temple
Birthday: 1928-04-23 | Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California, USAShirley 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. Her mother, Gertrude Temple, did her hair in pin curls for each movie. Every hairstyle had exactly 56 curls. Date of Death 10 February 2014, Woodside, California
Known For
Acting
Role
as Narrator
as Dinah Sheldon
as Margaret O'Hara / Knowles
as Philadelphia Thursday
as Susan Turner
as Barbara Marshall
as Bridget 'Brig' Hilton
as Mytyl
as Sara Crewe
as Susannah 'Sue' Sheldon
as Betsy Brown Shea
as Penny Hale
as Rebecca Winstead
as Heidi Kramer
as Priscilla 'Winkie' Williams
as Barbara 'Ching-Ching' Stewart
as Barbara Barry
as Dimples Appleby
as Helen 'Star' Mason
as Elizabeth Blair
as Lloyd Sherman
as Molly Middleton
as Virginia 'Virgie' Cary
as Joan Connelly (uncredited)
as Marthy Jane aka 'Marky'
as Penelope 'Pennie' Day
as Shirley Blake
as Shirley Dugan
as Shirley Ellison
