1. Shirley Temple won a special Juvenile Academy Award in February 1935 for her outstanding contribution as a juvenile performer in motion pictures during 1934 and has appeared in popular films through the remainder of the 1930s, although her subsequent films became less popular as she grew older.
Shirley Temple appeared in her last film, A Kiss for Corliss, in 1949.
Shirley Temple began her diplomatic career in 1969, when she was appointed to represent the US at a session of the United Nations General Assembly, where she worked at the US Mission under Ambassador Charles Yost.
Shirley Temple was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Kennedy Center Honors and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
Shirley Temple is 18th on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female American screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema.
Shirley Jane Temple was born on April 23,1928, at Santa Monica Hospital in Santa Monica, California, the third child of homemaker Gertrude Temple and bank employee George Temple.
Shirley Temple's mother encouraged her to develop her singing, dancing, and acting talents.
Shirley Temple hid behind a piano while he was in the studio.
In 1933, Shirley Temple appeared in Glad Rags to Riches, a parody of the Mae West feature She Done Him Wrong, with Shirley Temple as a saloon singer.
Shirley Temple became the breakout star of this series, and Educational promoted her to 20-minute comedies in the Frolics of Youth series with Frank Coghlan Jr.
Shirley Temple played Mary Lou Rogers, the baby sister in a contemporary suburban family.
Shirley Temple was lent to Tower Productions for a small role in the studio's first feature film, The Red-Haired Alibi, and in 1933 to Universal, Paramount and Warner Bros.
Shirley Temple auditioned on December 7,1933, and won the part.
Shirley Temple was signed to a $150-per-week contract that was guaranteed for two weeks by Fox.
Shirley Temple's charm was evident to Fox executives, and she was ushered into corporate offices almost immediately after finishing "Baby, Take a Bow", a song-and-dance number that she performed with James Dunn.
On December 21,1933, Shirley Temple's contract was extended to one year at the same $150 per week with a seven-year option, and her mother Gertrude was hired at $25 per week as her hairdresser and personal coach.
Shirley Temple performed in a short skit in the film alongside popular Fox star James Dunn, singing and tap dancing.
Shirley Temple's image began to appear on numerous commercial products without her legal authorization and without compensation.
Shirley Temple was awarded a miniature Juvenile Oscar in 1935.
Shirley Temple's salary was $2,500 per week by the end of 1935.
Heidi was the only other Shirley Temple film released in 1937.
Shirley Temple's contract gave neither her parents nor her any creative control over her movies.
Shirley Temple saw this as Zanuck's refusal to make any serious attempt at building upon the success of her dramatic role in Wee Willie Winkie.
Shirley Temple noted that she had difficulty adapting to a school environment after having spent much of her youth with adults and private tutors.
Shirley Temple did not formally announce her retirement from full-length films until 1950.
In 1960 the series moved to NBC, where it was broadcast under the title of The Shirley Temple Show until September 10,1961.
Shirley Temple was the most popular celebrity to endorse merchandise for children and adults, rivaled only by Mickey Mouse.
Shirley Temple transformed children's fashions, popularizing a toddler look for girls up to the age of 12, and by the mid-1930s, Ideal Novelty and Toy Company's line of Shirley Temple dolls accounted for almost a third of all dolls sold in the country.
At the height of her popularity, Shirley Temple was the subject of many myths and rumors, with several being propagated by the Fox press department.
False claims circulated that Shirley Temple was not a child, but a 30-year-old dwarf, due in part to her stocky body type.
Shirley Temple later said she wished all she had to do was wear a wig, bemoaning the nightly process she had to endure in the setting of her curls as tedious and grueling, with weekly vinegar rinses that stung her eyes.
Shirley Temple ran in the open primary as a conservative Republican and came in second with 34,521 votes, behind Republican law school professor Pete McCloskey, who placed first in the primary with 52,882 votes and advanced to the general election with Democrat Roy A Archibald, who finished fourth with 15,069 votes, but advanced as the highest-placed Democratic candidate.
Shirley Temple was extensively involved with the Commonwealth Club of California, a public-affairs forum headquartered in San Francisco.
Shirley Temple spoke at many meetings throughout the years, and was president for a period in 1984.
Shirley Temple got her start in foreign service after her failed run for Congress in 1967, when Henry Kissinger overheard her talking about South West Africa at a party.
Shirley Temple was surprised that she knew anything about it.
Shirley Temple was appointed as a delegate to the 24th United Nations General Assembly by President Richard M Nixon and United States Ambassador to Ghana by President Gerald R Ford.
Shirley Temple was appointed first female Chief of Protocol of the United States.
In 1976, Shirley Temple was considered a potential running mate to Gerald Ford in that year's presidential election.
Shirley Temple recalled that she speculated to her husband that the phone had been installed as Ford was about to ask her to be his running mate at the convention the phone was disconnected.
Shirley Temple had hoped after Ronald Reagan's victory in the 1980 presidential election that she would be given a cabinet position or another ambassadorship.
Shirley Temple bore witness to two crucial moments in the history of Czechoslovakia's fight against communism.
Shirley Temple was in Prague in August 1968, as a representative of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, and was going to meet with Czechoslovakian party leader Alexander Dubcek on the very day that Soviet-backed forces invaded the country.
Shirley Temple, who was stranded at a hotel as the tanks rolled in, sought refuge on the roof of the hotel.
Shirley Temple later reported that it was from there she saw an unarmed woman on the street gunned down by Soviet forces, the sight of which stayed with her for the rest of her life.
Shirley Temple openly sympathized with anti-communist dissidents, and assisted their efforts.
Shirley Temple was ambassador when the United States established formal diplomatic relations with the newly elected government led by Vaclav Havel.
Shirley Temple took the unusual step of personally accompanying Havel on his first official visit to Washington, traveling on the same plane.
In 1943,15-year-old Shirley Temple met 22-year-old John Agar, whom she married two years later in 1945, at age 17.
Shirley Temple gave birth to Linda Susan Agar in 1948.
Shirley Temple divorced Agar in 1950 on the grounds of mental cruelty.
In 1950, in Hawaii, Shirley Temple met Charles Alden Black at a cocktail party.
Shirley Temple was married to Charles Alden Black from 1950 until his death on August 4,2005.
At age 44 in 1972, Shirley Temple was diagnosed with breast cancer.
At the time, cancer was typically discussed in hushed whispers, and Shirley Temple's public disclosure was a significant milestone in improving breast cancer awareness and reducing stigma around the disease.
Shirley Temple died at age 85 on February 10,2014, at her home in Woodside, California.
Shirley Temple was a lifelong cigarette smoker but avoided displaying her habit in public because she did not want to set a bad example for her fans.
On March 14,1935, Shirley Temple left her footprints and handprints in the wet cement at the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Shirley Temple was the Grand Marshal of the New Year's Day Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, three times in 1939,1989, and 1999.
In February 1980, Shirley Temple was honored by the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
In 1975, Shirley Temple was installed as an honorary deputy paramount chief of the Oguaa people of Ghana.
Shirley Temple's name is further immortalized by the mocktail named after her, although Temple found the drink far too sweet for her palate.
In 1988, Shirley Temple brought a lawsuit to prevent a bottled soda version from using her name.