Shirley Temple

Born

1928

Died

2014

From

Santa Monica, California, USA·Woodside, California, USA

Height

1.57 m (5'2")

Also:
Actress
Writer

Credits on file

Decades active

Awards

In short · Acted for 10 decades — 79 credits, 7 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award wins.

Remembered for

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Recent & in release

2006
Award win
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award — Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
1998
Award win
Kennedy Center Honors — Kennedy Center Honors
1990
Award win
Honorary Citizen Of Plzen — honorary citizen of Plzeň
1970
Award win
Golden Plate Award — Golden Plate Award

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Biography

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.