Hollywood Legend Shirley Temple Has Died
Temple signed her first film contract at the age of three, and starred in dozens of Hollywood movies before she was even a teenager, quickly becoming one of the biggest bankable box office stars of the 1930s. (In 1934, she was given the first special "juvenile" Academy Award, that was also a miniature version of the famous Oscar statue.)Temple was the most popular movie star in the States from 1935-1939, far outpacing Clark Gable. She was known as much for her trademark ringlet curls as she was for her remarkable singing and dancing, notably in the 1934 film Stand Up and Cheer! and Bright Eyes, where she debuted the hit "On the Good Ship Lollipop." She retired from show business almost completely before she was 25.
In 1939, she was the subject of the Salvador Dalí painting Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time, and she was animated with Donald Duck in The Autograph Hound
Temple had her own radio series on CBS. Junior Miss debuted March 4, 1942, in which she played the title role. The series was based on stories by Sally Benson. Sponsored by Procter & Gamble, Junior Miss was directed by Gordon Hughes, with David Rose as musical director.
In the late 1960s, having long since retired to marry and raise a family, Temple got in to politics, running unsuccessfully for Congress. However, that effort brought her to the attention of prominent Republican Party members, including President Richard Nixon, who appointed her to be a U.N. diplomat. In 1974, she was made the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, and in 1989 she was given another ambassadorship by George H.W. Bush, this time to Czechoslovakia.
Temple publicly battled cancer in the early 1970s, addressing the press in her hospital room following a mastectomy. She broke taboos that prevented women from talking openly about breast cancer at the time and was considered a champion of that cause, urging women who had discovered lumps not to "sit home and be afraid."
In 1943, 15-year-old Temple met John Agar (1921–2002), an Army Air Corps sergeant, physical training instructor, and member of a Chicago meat-packing family. She married him at age 17 on September 19, 1945, before 500 guests in an Episcopal ceremony at Wilshire Methodist Church in Los Angeles. On January 30, 1948, Temple bore a daughter, Linda Susan. Agar became an actor, and the couple made two films together: Fort Apache (1948, RKO) and Adventure in Baltimore (1949, RKO). The marriage became troubled, and Temple divorced Agar on December 5, 1949. She was awarded custody of their daughter
Her second marriage, to Conrad Black, a Naval officer from a prominent California family, lasted 54 years until his death in 2005.
Filmography
Temple was an actress who was active in the movie industry
from 1932 until 1949. She appeared in several short subjects about her life and
various other actors she had worked with throughout her career.
Features
Year Film Role
1932 The
Red-Haired Alibi Gloria Shelton
1933 Out All Night
Child (as Shirley Jane Temple)
To the Last Man Mary
Stanley (uncredited)
1934 Carolina Joan Connelly (uncredited)
Mandalay Scenes
cut
As the Earth Turns Child
(uncredited)
Stand Up and Cheer! Shirley
Dugan
Change of Heart Shirley
(Girl on Airplane [uncredited])
Little Miss Marker Marthy
"Marky" Jane
Now I'll Tell Mary
Doran
Baby Take a Bow Shirley
Ellison
Now and Forever Penelope
"Penny"' Day
Bright Eyes Shirley
Blake
1935 The Little
Colonel Lloyd Sherman
Our Little Girl Molly
Middleton
Curly Top Elizabeth
Blair
The Littlest Rebel Virginia
"Virgie"' Cary
1936 Captain
January Helen
"Star" Mason
Poor Little Rich Girl Barbara
Barry
Dimples Sylvia
"Dimples" Dolores Appleby
Stowaway Barbara
"Ching-Ching" Stewart
1937 Wee Willie
Winkie Priscilla
"Winkie" Williams
Heidi Heidi Kramer
Ali Baba Goes to Town Herself
(uncredited cameo)
1938 Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm Rebecca Winstead
Little Miss Broadway Betsy
Brown Shea
Just Around the Corner Penny
Hale
1939 The Little
Princess Sara Crewe
Susannah of the Mounties Susannah
"Sue" Sheldon
1940 The Blue Bird
Mytyl
Young People Wendy
Ballantine
1941 Kathleen Kathleen Davis
1942 Miss Annie
Rooney Annie Rooney
1944 Since You
Went Away Bridget "Brig"
Hilton
I'll Be Seeing You Barbara
Marshall
1945 Kiss and Tell
Corliss Archer
1947 Honeymoon Barbara Olmstead
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Released in the U.K. as Bachelor Knight
Susan
That Hagen Girl Mary
Hagen
1948 Fort Apache Philadelphia Thursday
1949 Mr. Belvedere
Goes to College Ellen Baker
Adventure in Baltimore Dinah
Sheldon
The Story of Seabiscuit Margaret
O'Hara Knowles
A Kiss for Corliss Corliss
Archer (final film role)
Short subjects
Most of the films from 1932 and 1933 were produced as part
of the Baby Burlesks series.
Baby Burlesks
Year Film Role
1932
Runt Page Lulu
Parsnips (uncredited)
War Babies Charmaine
The Pie-Covered Wagon Shirley
1933 Glad Rags to
Riches Nell/La Belle Diaperina
Kid in Hollywood Morelegs
Sweettrick
The Kid's Last Fight Shirley
Polly Tix in Washington Polly
Tix
Kid 'in' Africa Madame
Cradlebait
Short films
Year Film Role
1933 Dora's
Dunking Doughnuts Shirley
Merrily Yours Mary
Lou Rogers
What's to Do? Mary
Lou Rogers
1934 Pardon My
Pups Mary Lou Rogers
Managed Money Mary
Lou Rogers
The Hollywood Gad-About Herself
1942 Our Girl
Shirley Herself
1946 American
Creed Herself
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