Shirley Temple
American actress and diplomat (1928–2014)
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- Breast cancer survivor.
- 2005: Premiere Magazine ranked her as #33 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature.
- A soft cocktail - Shirley Temple - was created in her honor consisting of, Ginger Ale (or 7-Up), Grenadine and Orange Juice, topped with a Maraschino Cherry and a slice of lemon.
- Her mother, Gertrude Temple, did her hair in pin curls for each movie. Every hairstyle had exactly 56 curls.
- Her daughter "Lorax" (Lori Black) was the bass player for the rock band The Melvins .
- Briefly considered for the role of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939), but it was determined that her singing limitations were "insurmountable," and Judy Garland, MGM's first choice, was cast instead.
- Was named #18 Actress, The American Film Institutes 50 Greatest Screen Legends
- Measurements: 35-24-35 (as an adult), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- Has three children: Linda Susan Agar (b. 1948), Charles Black Jr. (b. 1952) and 'Lori Black' (b. 1954).
- Her childhood home is located at 231 Rockingham Avenue, Brentwood, California.
- A vocal supporter of the Vietnam War, when running for Congress as a Republican in 1967 Temple consistently argued that the US needed to send more troops to South East Asia.
- A close friend and supporter of Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
- In a 1988 interview with Larry King, she stated that out of the $3 million she generated for 20th Century Fox she only saw $45,000 in her trust fund.
- 1936: She received a new contract from 20th Century-Fox, retroactive on September 9, paying her over $50,000 per film.
- At the age of 6, she was the youngest presenter at the Oscars ever. She presented the "Best Actress" award in 1935. The winner was Claudette Colbert.
- Bill Robinson (aka "Bojangles Robinson") was her idol when she was a child, and she got to work with him on four pictures.
- 11/1/06: She broke her wrist in a fall at her northern California home.
- Says that she stopped believing in Santa Claus when she went to a department store to have her picture taken with him, and he asked for her autograph.
- She presented Walt Disney with his special Academy Award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). It was a standard-sized Oscar with seven little Oscars.
- She calls it corny but she admitted that she fell in love with Charles Black at first sight. They met while she was in Honolulu. He was working for a shipping company there at the time.
- Second husband Charles Black was a businessman and maritime issues consultant. He served on a Commerce Department advisory committee and several National Research Council panels. He also co-founded a Massachusetts-based company that developed unmanned deep-ocean search and survey imaging systems. He died of bone marrow disease at age 86. It had been diagnosed three years earlier.
- Is portrayed by Ashley Rose Orr and by Emily Hart in Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001) (TV)
- According to author Garry Wills in "John Wayne's America", director John Ford had serious issues with women, which carried over onto his sets. When he made Wee Willie Winkie (1937) with Shirley, she was a child as well as the top box office star in America and he treated her well. When she was cast in Fort Apache (1948), she was a young woman and he did not. Like her role in Wee Willie Winkie (1937), she played the "cute but unmanageable troublemaker at the post" who is befriended by and relies on an avuncular sergeant, both times played by Victor McLaglen. McLaglen had been blackballed by Ford for the previous seven years, but was brought back into the Ford stock company with this film. When Ford met Shirley, whose husband John Agar he had also cast in the picture, he rudely asked her, "Now where did you go to school, Shirley? Did you graduate?".
- At age six she became the youngest person ever to be presented with an Oscar.