RIP SHIRLEY TEMPLE!
Shirley Temple the most famous child star of all time and box office gold for 4 years died today leaving her fans with the memories and magic of the Good Ship Lollipop, Curly Top, and Captain January.
Shirley Temple was the most famous child star of all
time. Also called America’s little sweetheart. President Roosevelt famously
said “As long as we have Shirley Temple, we will be fine”.
She was credited with helping save the film company 20th
Century Fox, which owed $42million, from bankruptcy.
In Britain, the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret,
were avid Temple fans.
She even had a drink named after her, an appropriately
sweet and innocent cocktail of ginger ale and grenadine, topped with a
maraschino cherry.
Her career faltered in 1939 after Fox refused to loan her
to MGM, she lost the lead in The Wizard of Oz to Judy Garland.
She became the youngest actor ever to win an Academy
Juvenile Award in 1935, at the age of six.
Her handprints were placed in cement outside Grauman's
Chinese Theater in Hollywood along with the biggest stars of the day.
She was the world's number one box-office star from 1935
to 1938 - leaving Clark Gable trailing in second place.
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The Most Icon Dance Scene
During The Golden Age Of Hollywood
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Shirley Temple broke the mold as well as the only leading lady to dance with a
black actor during the times of Shirley Temple. Fox so sure of her star power
took the risk and casting the best tap dancer in showbiz Billy Bojangles
Robinson, whom she could call "uncle Billy" and they partnered in 4
movies together, become her most most famous leading man.
We
look back at Shirley Temple’s remarkable life
April 23,
1928: Shirley Temple is born in Santa Monica, California
1934:
Temple stars in breakthrough movie Bright Eyes
1935:
Child star becomes the youngest ever to receive an Academy Juvenile Award at
age of six
1935 - 1938: She
is the number one box office star in the world
1939:
Temple loses out the lead role in The Wizard of Oz to Judy Garland
1945: She
marries her first husband John Agar and the couple have daughter Linda the
following year
1949: The
couple divorce following Agar's drinking and infidelity
1950:
Temple retires from Hollywood after a string of box-office flops
1950: She
marries businessman Charles Alden Black and the couple go on to have two
children, Charles and Lori
1967: Temple
makes an unsuccessful bid for Congress as a Republican candidate
1970s:
Mrs Temple-Black as ambassador to Ghana and later U.S. chief of protocol
2005:
Charles Alden Black dies after being married to Temple for 55 years
2006:
Temple receives the Screen Actors' Guild Lifetime Achievement Award
