Shirley Temple
American actress and diplomat (1928-2014) · United States · Actors · Died at 85
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Something wrong?She was Hollywood's biggest star before she turned ten - a Depression-era child actress whose curls and songs carried entire studios - then walked away, resurfaced in diplomacy, and spent her second act representing the United States in Africa, Europe, and the UN.
A life in dates
Waking Sleeping BeautyFilm2006Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement AwardAward1998Kennedy Center HonorsAward1997
Frank Capra's American DreamFilm1995
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRASeries1990Honorary Citizen of PlzeňAward1988“Robinson walked a step ahead of us, but when he noticed me hurrying to catch up, he shortened his stride to accommodate mine.”In their wordsShirley Temple Black, Child Star: An Autobiography (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1988), pp. 90-91.1985
That's Dancing!Film1982
WoganSeries1979“Some of you may recollect a little girl with clean and curled hair, starched skirts, ruffles, and bows. That perception was wrong.”In their words10 April 1979Quoted in: Shirley Temple Black, Movie Star, U.S. Ambassador - Landon Lecture" Kansas State University, April 10, 1979.1978
The Kennedy Center HonorsSeries1975“I think we all learn from the past. I just feel we shouldn't live there. We shouldn't live in the past. I live for today, and to me, the most important moment is now.”In their wordsQuoted in: "Madam Ambassador - Sixty Minutes" CBS, 1975.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?Film, 19751971V.I.P. SchaukelSeries1970Golden Plate AwardAward1961
The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1960Star on Hollywood Walk of FameAward1958
Shirley Temple's StorybookSeries1956
The Dinah Shore Chevy ShowSeries1953
The OscarsSeries1949
Mr. Belvedere Goes to CollegeFilm, Ellen Baker1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries1947
That Hagen GirlFilm, Mary Hagen1944
I'll Be Seeing YouFilm, Barbara Marshall1940
The Blue BirdFilm, Mytyl1939
Susannah of the MountiesFilm, Susannah Sheldon1937
Ali Baba Goes to TownFilm, Herself1936
Captain JanuaryFilm, Star1935Academy Juvenile AwardAward
Curly TopFilm, 1935Elizabeth Blair1933
To the Last ManFilm, Mary Stanley (uncredited)1932
Red Haired AlibiFilm, Gloria Shelton1928Born23 April 1928Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 8
, I have no trouble being taken seriously as a woman and a diplomat here.
Politicians are actors too, don't you think?
Robinson walked a step ahead of us, but when he noticed me hurrying to catch up, he shortened his stride to accommodate mine.
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SpotifyFilmography 40
WBWaking Sleeping BeautyFDFrank Capra's American Dream
HUHollywood UncensoredTDThat's Dancing!BDBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?
TSThe Story of SeabiscuitMCMr. Belvedere Goes to College
FAFort Apache
TSThe Bachelor and the Bobby-SoxerTGThat Hagen Girl
SASince You Went AwayIYI'll Be Seeing YouTBThe Blue Bird
YPYoung People
TPThe Little PrincessSMSusannah of the Mounties
RFRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
LBLittle Miss Broadway
JCJust Around the Corner
HEHeidi
WWWee Willie WinkieATAli Baba Goes to Town
STStowaway
PGPoor Little Rich GirlCJCaptain January
DIDimplesCTCurly Top
TCThe Little Colonel
TRThe Littlest Rebel
OGOur Little Girl
BEBright Eyes
LMLittle Miss Marker
NFNow and Forever
BBBaby Take a Bow
SCStand Up and Cheer!
MAMandalay
NTNow I'll Tell
ATAs the Earth TurnsTMTo the Last ManRARed Haired Alibi104 credits on file
Television 11
AAAndy Warhol's AmericaTAThe Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRAWOWoganTHThe Kennedy Center Honors
TSThe Dick Cavett ShowTSThe Mike Douglas ShowSSShirley Temple's StorybookTSThe Dinah Shore Chevy ShowTOThe OscarsTSThe Ed Sullivan ShowAwards
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Shirley Temple started in films at three and by 1934, with Bright Eyes, became the top box-office draw in America. She won a special Juvenile Academy Award in February 1935 and held that commercial throne through 1938, though her appeal dimmed as she aged; her last picture, A Kiss for Corliss, came in 1949. Twenty years later she began a diplomatic career, appointed to the U.S. Mission at the United Nations in 1969, then named Ambassador to Ghana and later the first female Chief of Protocol. She published her autobiography, Child Star, in 1988, then served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992. The American Film Institute placed her 18th among the greatest female screen legends of classic Hollywood.
In common with Shirley
Cary GrantAlso in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
John FordAlso in Fort Apache (1948)
Raymond ScottAlso in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Myrna LoyAlso in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Gloria StuartAlso in Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Claudette ColbertAlso in Since You Went Away (1944)Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.