Shirley Temple

Adorable Shirley Temple in period costume for the dream sequence in HEIDI (1937). Born on April 23, 1928, Shirley 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 big stars as Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford. Her film credits include “Bright Eyes” (1934), “The Little Colonel” (1935), “Curly Top” (1935), “Dimples” (1936), “Heidi” (1937), “The Little Princess” (1939) and “The Blue Bird” (1940). By 1940, her popularity had declined. Although she continued to appear 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 in life, she served as an ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. Shirley Temple passed away at age 85 on February 10, 2014, at her home in Woodside, California.

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