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To: Bill who wrote (5396)	2/11/2014 8:36:05 AM
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To: Bill who wrote (5396)	2/11/2014 9:36:49 AM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Recommended By Bill Honey_Bee Respond to of 12375

Hollywood star Shirley Temple dies A look back at the life of Shirley Temple Former Hollywood child star Shirley Temple has died at the age of 85. With her adorable charm and blonde curls, she was one of the most popular stars of the 1930s, in hit movies like Bright Eyes and Stand Up and Cheer. After retiring from films in 1950 at the age of 21, Temple returned to the spotlight as a politician and diplomat. She died on Monday at home in Woodside, California, from natural causes. "She was surrounded by her family and caregivers," a statement said. Born in 1928, Temple soon became a major star after getting her first film role at the age of three. She accepted the Screen Actors Guild Awards life achievement award in 2006 Her singing, dancing and acting won over fans worldwide. She was given a special juvenile Oscar in 1935, when she was just six years old. To this day, she is still the youngest person to receive an Academy Award. With the nickname "America's little darling", she was ranked as Hollywood's biggest draw for four years running from 1935 to '38 in an annual poll of US cinema owners. Her rendition of the song On the Good Ship Lollipop in the film Bright Eyes was among her most famous performances. Continue reading the main story SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S LIFE IN MOVIES Temple started dancing at Mrs Meglin's Dance Studio in Los Angeles aged three. It was here, in 1931, that she was signed up a series of shorts that parodied famous films with all-child casts. She was paid $10 a day. Stand Up and Cheer was her first feature film in 1934. A year later, aged six, she was the first recipient of a special juvenile Oscar. She holds the record as the youngest ever Oscar winner. Her mother Gertrude did her hair for each movie. Every hairstyle had exactly 56 curls. Temple made 14 short films and 43 features during her acting career. Her other films included Curly Top, The Littlest Rebel, Baby Take a Bow and Little Miss Marker. She was such a hit that US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt dubbed her "Little Miss Miracle" for raising morale during the Great Depression and she was credited with helping save 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy. Temple starred in a total of 43 feature films - but found it difficult to sustain her career in adulthood and left acting behind in 1950. She continued to appear on television, but that work dried up and she eventually stepped away from the spotlight. When she came back into the public eye, it was in a new guise. Under her married name Shirley Temple Black, she ran as a Republican candidate for Congress in 1967 but lost. Richard Nixon later appointed her as a member of the US delegation to the United Nations General Assembly before President Ford named her the US ambassador to Ghana in 1974. In 1989, she was made the US ambassador to Czechoslovakia shortly before the fall of the country's Communist regime. She considered her background in entertainment an asset to her political career. "Politicians are actors too, don't you think?" she once said. In a statement announcing her death, her family said: "We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for 55 years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black."

To: Bill who wrote (5396)	2/11/2014 10:40:36 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 12375

my boys just asked me about her like a week ago, I told them oh she died about 10 years ago.

To: Bill who wrote (5396)	2/12/2014 3:35:19 PM
From: richardred	Respond to of 12375

Didn't realize this till my mother told me today. she is the same age. Watched plenty of classics. My lasting impression. The words ON THE GOOD SHIP LOLLYPOP.

To: Bill who wrote (5396)	2/19/2014 2:18:24 AM
From: ManyMoose	11 Recommendations Recommended By Bill George Statham Glenn Petersen Hannoverian Honey_Bee and 6 more members Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12375

My Dad took this picture of Shirley Temple about 1940, coming up the gangplank to his ship, the Heavy Cruiser, USS Northampton.