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Shirley Temple Black, commonly known as Shirley Temple, was a famous American diplomat, politician, actress, as well as a singer. Even though Shirley Temple had been performing in front of television screens since she was three years old, her rise to prominence came several years later, when she starred in David Butler’s comedy drama film entitled “Bright Eyes”. In the movie, Temple played the role of Shirley Blake, which was developed specifically for her. Temple’s role in “Bright Eyes” brought her a Juvenile Academy Award in 1935, for her input to the film industry. Temple followed her success with appearances in the 1935 musical film called “Curly Top”, as well as the 1937 musical drama movie “Heidi”, in which she co-starred with Jean Hersholt, Mary Nash and Marcia Mae Jones.

In addition to acting, Shirley Temple became known for her political ventures. In 1974, Temple earned the position of the United States Ambassador to Ghana, then became a Chief of Protocol of the United States, and in 1989 served under George H. W. Bush as the United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

A popular actress, as well as a politician, how rich is Shirley Temple? Sources state that Shirley Temple’s net worth is estimated to be $30 million. Most of Shirley Temple’s net worth came from her acting career, as well as her involvement in politics.

Shirley Temple was born in 1928, in Santa Monica, California. Temple was noticed in 1932, by Charles Lamont, who offered her a role in a collective series called “Baby Burlesks”. After that, Temple appeared in “Frolics of Youth”, “The Red-Haired Alibi” and “Little Miss Marker”. Shirley reached the peak of her career in 1935 and the following years, when she began to be featured in such major films as “Captain January”, “The Littlest Rebel”, and “Our Little Girl” to name A few. Temple failed to repeat her early success with her future works, therefore she decided upon her retirement from the film industry when she was 22 years old. However, even though she stayed away from the limelight for a while, Shirley Temple made her return to on television screens in 1958, when she began hosting a children’s anthology series called “Shirley Temple’s Storybook”, which aired for two seasons. Initially, the show seemed to be too amateur, hence, as a result of this it was recreated and re-released under the name of “The Shirley Temple Show”. Unfortunately, due to the competition on the network from such shows as “Dennis the Menace” and “The Wizard of Oz”, “The Shirley Temple Show” failed to maintain its ratings, and was eventually cancelled.

Aside from acting, Temple dabbled in politics, until she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Shirley Temple passed away in 2014, at the age of 85, due to obstructive pulmonary disease, which developed as a result of smoking. Temple’s contributions to the film industry have been acknowledged with Kennedy Center Honors, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, a bronze statue near the Fox Studio, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Shirley Temple Quotes

• We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.
• When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I’ve been getting younger ever since.
• I work a 17-hour day, and I’m personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
• I ran for Congress just once.
• Good luck needs no explanation.
• Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.
• [on her adult experiences as a former child star] I do get pinched a lot. Mostly it’s women, my peer group and even older than I am, and I’m old. They tend to want to touch. If I go on a tour I’ll get pinched on the arm, the back, the cheeks, the chin. They say, “You’re so cute”, or “You were so cute”. Then they hang on, and I come home black and blue. It’s a hazard.
• I was so short that I became an expert in belts and shoes and people’s hands and handbags. I learned that I liked the working crew the most, more than the stars. I liked the guys that I worked with very, very much. It was my extended family. The crew worked on almost all of my films. We had a marvelous time. I had a “Shirley Temple Police Force” and all of the crowd and various celebrities I would have join my force. I was very careful that they kept their badges polished, and if they lost them there was a big fine. If they gave them away, there was a bigger fine. We had just so much fun. I teased them a lot, too, particularly the cameramen, who had a lot of trouble with me.
• When I saw work shoes I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child.
• [to the Screen Actors Guild’ in 2005] I’ve been blessed with three wonderful careers–motion pictures and television, wife, mother and grandmother, and diplomatic services for the United States government. I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the “Lifetime Achievement Award”. Start early.
• I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.
• I’m not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for That Hagen Girl (1947), which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
• Shirley Temple doesn’t hurt Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple helps Shirley Temple Black. She is thought of as a friend–which I am!
• One famous movie executive who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. “Mr X”, I said, “I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor”.
• Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.
• I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple Important Facts

• $110,000
• $2,200 (per week)
• $75 /week
• $1,000 /wk+$35,000 bonus at the end of each film to be held in trust until contract is over+$250/wk for her mother
• $150 /week
• $50 (two days)
• She is mentioned in A.L.T. and the Lost Civilization’s “Tequila.”.
• She became very close to Will Rogers after signing with Fox. When Rogers died in a 1935 airplane crash, she was inconsolable for days afterwards. Studio chief Joseph M. Schenck, who was in England at the time, bought her a pony and had it shipped the US on the Queen Mary. When she learned that the pony was to be flown from New York to Los Angeles, she insisted that it be shipped by rail to avoid another crash.
• In 1967 she visited California’s Legendary Road Stop the “Nut Tree” in Vacaville.
• By 1950 she earned $3.21 million but only received $44,000 in her trust and the deed to her $45,000 dollhouse after she stopped acting.
• She was a lifelong heavy smoker.
• Pictured on a ‘forever’ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, issued 18 April 2016.
• At birth her children weighed an average of 7 lbs 1 oz with her son being the smallest at 6 lbs 12 oz according to their birth announcements in the milestones columns of Time Magazines issues dated 2/9/1948 May 12th 1952 & April 19th 1954 The Girls were born in Santa Monica California while Charlie Jr was born in Bethesda Maryland.
• Was bitten on the finger by a baby alligator that belonged to exotic animal trainer Ralph Helfer.
• In 1974 she was appointed United States Ambassador to Ghana.
• In 1998 she was a recipient of Kennedy Center Honors.
• In 1969 she was appointed United States Delegate to the United Nations.
• In 1989 was appointed United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
• She was the last surviving film star mentioned in the song “Let’s Go to the Movies” featured in the film version of Annie (1982).
• Temple was Buddy Ebsen’s best friend and he used to be her dancing partner.
• She was a Girl Scout.
• On Easter Sunday 1936, Joel McCrea sent Shirley a live bunny as a gift.
• She was considered for the role of Veda Pierce in the Joan Crawford drama Mildred Pierce (1945), which went to Ann Blyth.
• In the summer of 1976 she was named Chief of Protocol for the US State Department.
• In the fall of 1974 she was appointed American Ambassador to Ghana. Her excellent record during her two years in that position prompted Henry Kissinger to refer to her as “able and tough”.
• She was elected to the board of directors of Walt Disney Productions in May 1974.
• In 1972 she was sworn in as Special Assistant to the Chairman of the President’s Council on Environment. It was while serving in that position that she underwent a radical mastectomy.
• She was named a delegate to the United Nations, in 1969, by President Richard Nixon.
• In 1967 she ran against Paul McCloskey in the Republican primary for California’s 11th Congressional District. McCloskey won with 52,878 votes to her 34,521. One of the newspaper headlines read: “McCloskey Torpedoes Good Ship Lollypop”.
• From 1964-66 she chaired the program division of the San Francisco Film Festival. She resigned that position when she objected to the “pornographic” content of Mai Zetterling’s Night Games (1966).
• In 1965, she filmed a television pilot called “Go Fight City Hall” but it did not sell.
• While at MGM in 1941, Shirley’s mother turned down Babes on Broadway (1941), Panama Hattie (1942), National Velvet (1944), an Andy Hardy entry and Barnacle Bill (1941) for Shirley as not showcasing the child star properly. MGM finally put her into Kathleen (1941) and settled her contract.
• Her two reputations (child star and ambassador) were once parodied on Saturday Night Live (1975). In the skit, Temple (played by Laraine Newman) is ambassador to Ghana, but still in her cute child star persona. She cutely talks Ghana’s president (Garrett Morris) out of waging wars.
• Aunt of Marina Black.
• When Gary Cooper first met her on the set of their movie Now and Forever (1934), he asked for her autograph.
• She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine St. on February 8, 1960.
• Was pregnant with daughter Linda Susan “Susie” Agar (later changed to Black), during the filming of That Hagen Girl (1947).
• While her first daughter was delivered naturally, her son and her second daughter Lori Black were delivered by Caesarean.
• Her childhood home is located in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles at 231 Rockingham Avenue.
• A vocal supporter of the Vietnam War, when running for Congress as a Republican in 1967 she consistently argued that the US needed to send more troops to Southeast Asia.
• 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.
• A non-alcoholic cocktail, “The Shirley Temple”, was created in her honor. It consists of ginger ale (or 7-Up), grenadine and orange juice, topped with a maraschino cherry and a slice of lemon.
• On September 9, 1936, she received a new contract from 20th Century-Fox, retroactive, paying her over $50,000 per film.
• At age six 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.
• On November 1, 2006, she broke her wrist in a fall at her Northern California home.
• 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 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 in 2005. It had been diagnosed three years earlier.
• 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 treat her well. Like her role in “Wee Willie Winkie”, 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?”.
• Was named #18 Actress, The American Film Institute’s 50 Greatest Screen Legends.
• In 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.
• At age six she became the first recipient of the juvenile Academy Award. To this day she is the youngest person ever to receive an Academy Award. After receiving her award from actor/writer Irvin S. Cobb, she politely thanked him, then turned to her mother and asked, “Mommy, can I go home now?” Many years later, in an appearance on the 1984 Oscar show, Temple explained what had happened. At the 1935 Oscar banquet, her special award was one of the last to be presented that evening. She had been forced to sit through the entire awards ceremony, watching all the other awards being handed out. By the time she got her award, at about 10:00 p.m., she was exhausted and ready to go home to bed.
• When she was a teenager her bodyguard was Louis Dean Palmer, whom she called “Palmtree”.
• She was voted the 38th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
• Auditioned twice to be in “Our Gang” / “The Little Rascals”. She apparently failed the first audition, and made the second while she was appearing in the “Baby Burlesks” series. “Our Gang” director Robert F. McGowan refused to agree to Shirley’s mother’s request that Shirley receive star billing with “Our Gang”, so she didn’t get in.
• Appears on the cover of The Beatles’ album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”.
• She learned her trade at Meglin’s, a popular talent school. Judy Garland was once a fellow “Meglin Kiddie”.
• Shirley Jones and Shirley MacLaine were both named after her.
• She became a Dame of Malta, although not from the officially recognized Roman Catholic order but rather from a non-Roman Catholic-unaffiliated entity.
• Her mother, Gertrude Temple, did her hair in pin curls for each movie. Every hairstyle had exactly 56 curls.
• Has three children: Linda Susan Agar, whom Charles Black later adopted, (b. January 30, 1948), Charles Black Jr. (aka Charles Alden Black Jr. “Charlie”) (born in Bethesda, Maryland on April 24, 1952) and Lori Black (aka Lori Alden Black) (b. April 9, 1954). Oddly enough, both daughters were not only born in the same hospital in Santa Monica, CA, but both were delivered by the same doctor who had delivered Shirley herself.
• When she was seven years old her life was insured with Lloyd’s of London, and the contract stipulated that no benefits would be paid if the child film star met with death or injury while intoxicated.
• She was considered to play Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939), and there are several stories about why she didn’t. One is that 20th Century-Fox refused to lend her to MGM. Another was that MGM considered her singing limitations “insurmountable”. In either case, Judy Garland got the part.
• When she was to play the role of Beauty in a production of “Beauty and the Beast,” she was amused when her then very young daughter remarked, “Gee, Mom, you’ll make a swell Beast!”.
• Her daughter “Lorax” (Lori Black) was the bass player for the rock band The Melvins .
• Charles Black, the San Francisco businessman she married after divorcing John Agar, admitted to her, while they were courting, that he had never seen any of her movies.

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