[Vendome]

My Grandma and she were neighbors in the 1960’s

[Da Coyote]

A very smart (rare in H-wood) star with mega-class (even more rare in that cesspool).

[Rio]

IMDB bio:

Shirley Temple was easily the most popular and famous child star of all time. She 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 great grown-up stars as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford. By 1939, her popularity declined. Although she starred 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, she served as an ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. It was once guessed that she had more than 50 golden curls on her head.

[Rio]

This should finish her off:

[tallyhoe]

What a wonderful little actress she was. Could sing Dance with the best of them... Loved her old movies from the 1930’s and 40’s!

[mcmuffin]

I remember in 2014 when Shirley Temple passed away and the Kenyan would not have the Stars and Stripes lowered to half mast.

Of course when Whitney Houston croaks on a drug overdose, the community organizer had the flags lowered.

obama’s a POS.

[Paal Gulli]

They tell at W.R. Hurst's San Simeon castle that when she became a wealthy and well-known child actress, Shirley made it well known that she wanted to spend a night in the Richelieu bed, once owned by Louie XIII's infamous minister of state, Cardinal Richelieu (fictional arch enemy of Alexandre Dumas' equally fictional Three Musketeers), and which since had been bought by Hurst and made the centerpiece of one of the mansion's many bedroom suites. But her mother forbade it because too many notorious people frequented the parties there. She finally got the opportunity when she grew up and her movie career fizzled.

In every film, Shirley's mother made sure her hair was done with exactly 56 curls.