Photos: Shirley Temple through the years
February 11, 2014
Shirley Temple Black accepts the Screen Actors Guild Awards life achievement award at the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 29, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) ( SAG AWARDS SHOW )
Actress Shirley Temple poses in 1932. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple 1932 )
Flowers and a stuffed animal are left at the hand and foot prints for Shirley Temple Black at the TCL Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. Temple, who died Monday night at 85, sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers and remains the ultimate child star decades later. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) ( CORRECTION Obit Shirley Temple )
Child actress Shirley Temple is seen in her role as "Little Miss Marker" in this 1933 photograph. (AP Photo) ( LITTLE MISS MARKER )
Shirley Temple, 5-year-old screen actress, is shown with her father, George F. Temple, as they enjoy a day at the beach at the Santa Monica Athletic Club in Santa Monica on June 5, 1934. (AP Photo) ( SHIRLEY TEMPLE FAMILY )
Shirley Temple and tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson are shown in a scene from the 1935 motion picture "The Little Colonel," one of four movies they appeared in together. (AP Photo) ( TEMPLE BOJANGLES )
Shirley Temple, child film star, and her parents, Gertrude and George Temple, before they sailed on July 24, 1935, in Los Angeles on vacation to Honolulu. (AP Photo/AC) ( Shirley Temple and her parents Aboard Ship )
Actress Shirley Temple is photographed as she appeared in "Poor Little Rich Girl" in 1936. Temple, who was born in 1928 and began acting at the age of three, received an honorary Academy Award in 1934 for her contributions as a child film star. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple )
This is a 1936 photo of child actress Shirley Temple. By the time she was 10, Temple already had won an Academy Award and was the most popular movie star in America for four years during the Great Depression. (AP Photos) ( SHIRLEY TEMPLE )
This file photo shows child film star Shirley Temple with actor Robert Young in the 1936 Hollywood film "Stowaway." Hollywood star Shirley Temple has died at the age of 85. During 1934-38, the actress appeared in more than 20 feature films and was consistently the top U.S. movie star. Shirley Temple Black was U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. (HO/AFP/Getty Images) ( 526918051 )
American child movie star Shirley Temple, 8, is portrayed in Hollywood, Calif., in November 1936. (AP Photo)
Actress Shirley Temple is photographed as she appeared in "Wee Willie Winkie" in 1937. Shirley, who was born in 1928 and began acting at the age of three, received an honorary Academy Award in 1934 for her contributions as a child film star. (AP Photo) ( TEMPLE WEE WILLIE WINKIE )
American child movie star Shirley Temple, 9, is pictured with her new hair style November 1937. (AP Photo)
Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady of the nation, and Shirley Temple, first lady of the motion picture box office, are shown as they talked together when Roosevelt visited the set where Shirley is making her latest picture, "Little Miss Broadway," on March 18, 1938, in Hollywood, Calif. Roosevelt was in Southern California on a lecture tour and visited several Hollywood studios. Geography and grandchildren were the chief topics of conversation between the little actress and the first lady. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple and Eleanor Roosevelt 1938 )
Young actress Shirley Temple, tours the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Washington, D.C., June 24, 1938. Head G-man J. Edgar Hoover was her guide. Shirley plugs her ears with fingers as her father shoots a G-man's gun. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple And Hoover 1938 )
American child movie star Shirley Temple, 13, smiles during a photo shooting in the U.S., September 1941. Her hair has turned a rich brown. (AP Photo)
Shirley Temple, right, plays Chinese Checkers between scenes with her stand-in, Mary Lou Isleib, who is a year older but has been her stand-in for six years, Sept. 12, 1941. They are close friends away from the set. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple 1941 )
Shirley Temple is shown demonstrating her knitting to Abbey Wilder, the girl whose role Shirley is to portray in the filming of the novel, "Since You Went Away," June 13, 1943 in Hollywood. In the novel, Margaret Buell Wilder, Abbey's mother, in her letters to her soldier husband tells of the home-front struggle of herself and her two teen-aged daughters. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple And Abbey Wilder 1943 )
Actress Shirley Temple, a United Service Organizations (USO) volunteer, holds a bowl of cookies for servicemen at the Hollywood Canteen, Ca., Aug. 21, 1944. (AP Photo)
Shirley Temple, second from left, joins her classmates at Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during graduation exercises, June 13, 1945, when she received her high school diploma. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple Graduates 1945 )
Shirley Temple, who became the bride of Sgt. John Agar at the Hollywood Wilshire Methodist church, Sept. 19, 1945, poses in her wedding gown. The dress is of white satin with fitted bodice, short sleeves and "Little Infanta" skirt held out at the sides by panniers. The headdress is a small crown of corded satin wired in small loops. From it falls a silk net veil. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple Marries 1945 )
Seventeen year old film star, Shirley Temple was married at a Hollywood Church. She arrived at the church 90 minutes before time, hoping to dodge the crowds. Her airman husband, Sgt. John Agar, was also early. But even then the ceremony failed to start on time. One of the chief guests David O Selznick arrived half an hour late. The ceremony began only to be interrupted as Gov. Earl Warren bustled into church with his family. The newlyweds are seen after their wedding at the Wilshire Methodist Church in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on Sept. 19, 1945. The two are honeymooning in a secret hideaway. (AP Photo) ( USA Shirley Temple Marries John Agar )
Cary Grant is dressed as a knight while shooting a scene for “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” in Hollywood on Aug. 16, 1946. Shirley Temple visited the set and tried Grant's helmet on for size. (AP Photo) ( Cary Grant and Shirley Temple )
Three-month-old Linda Susan Agar, daughter of Shirley Temple, poses for her first picture with her mother in Hollywood, on May 21, 1948. Linda's father is John Agar, who has joined his wife in the pursuit of a movie career. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple )
Actress Hattie McDaniel, left, is shown with Shirley Temple at a party welcoming Temple back to the 20th Century Fox lot in Los Angeles, Ca., Nov. 5, 1948. (AP Photo)
Shirley Temple and her attorney George Stahlman sit at counsel table at divorce proceedings, Dec. 5, 1949. Shirley was granted a divorce from actor John Agar. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple Divorce 1949 )
Shirley Temple, center, and her husband, Charles Black, are stopped by autograph hunters as they arrive for the opening of The Living Desert, Dec. 20, 1953, Los Angeles, Calif. The Blacks expect their second child in the spring. The former star also has a child by her first marriage. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple and Charles Black 1953 )
Shirley Temple, Mrs. Charles Black in private life, is shown leaving Santa Monica Hospital with her daughter, Lori, born Friday, April 17, 1954, Santa Monica, Calif. The Blacks also have a daughter Linda Susan, 6, and a son, Charles Jr., 2. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple with Baby 1954 )
Shirley Temple looks over her childhood collection of 1,500 dolls given her by film fans, Sept. 1, 1955, Palo Alto, Calif. She has given the dolls to the Allied Arts Guild as a permanent exhibit. Now 27, Temple lives in Atherton, Calif., near San Francisco, with her husband and their three children, aged one to seven. Like other young couples, they are do-it-yourself home owners, and are busy landscaping their patio. Shirley still gets about 150 fan letters a week and requests for appearance at all sorts of affairs. But she tries to avoid personal publicity, and also to keep her children out of the spotlight. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple 1955 )
As two of her three children, Charles, 5, and Lori, 3, pump the handle of a miniature railroad car, Shirley Temple waves goodbye to them on Aug. 6, 1957, at their Atherton, Calif., home. Shirley, 29, is the wife of Charles Black, a businessman. (AP Photo/EKB) ( Shirley Temple )
Actress Shirley Temple is shown during rehearsals for her TV show, Dec. 12, 1957, Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/David F. Smith) ( Shirley Temple Los Angeles 1957 )
Republican Shirley Temple Black, former child movie star, and Vice President Richard Nixon meet in Washington on June 7, 1960, for the Multiple Sclerosis Society gathering. They reminisce in front of a photo enlargement of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev taken at the Moscow debate in 1959. In 1969, Nixon appointed Black U.S. representative to the UN General Assembly. (AP Photo) ( SHIRLEY TEMPLE NIXON )
Shirley Temple Black, one of the sponsors of the San Francisco film festival, holds the award presented to her and William Boyd, director of the festival, at the International Film Awards dinner at hotel Americana in New York on Jan. 21, 1966. The citation honors the contribution to the community made by the festival. (AP Photo/Charles Harrity) ( Shirley Temple Black )
Shirley Temple Black, shown shaking hands of supporters for her candidacy for Congress, shown in 1967 in California. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple Black )
Shirley Temple Black is shown in San Mateo, Calif., during a news conference where she announced her candidacy for Congress in San Mateo, Aug. 29, 1967. (AP Photo/Sal Veder)
Shirley Temple Black pays her $300 filing fee as a candidate for the 11th Congressional District in Redwood City, Calif., Oct. 5, 1967. The former child star was accompanied by her husband Charles Black, and three children, Charles, 15, Lori, 13, and Susan, 19. Shirley Temple Black, a Republican, is one of 14 people who have announced they will run in the special election to fill the seat vacated by the death J. Arthur Younger. At right is San Mateo County Clerk John Bruning. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett)
Shirley Temple Black, on the campaign trial for the U.S. Senate, is the center of attention as she moves through a public park and talks with people of her district in San Mateo, Calif., on Oct. 21, 1967. Both young and old gathered around her to talk and receive a Shirley button. Mrs. Black is running against nine other candidates for the post. (AP Photo/ Robert Klein) ( Shirley Temple Black )
Shirley Temple Black is surrounded by a group of supporters as she arrives for a debate with four Democratic candidates for the right to represent the 11th Congressional District, at El Camino High School gymnasium, Nov. 10, 1967. (AP Photo/Robert Houston)
Shirley Temple Black was surrounded by a group of well-wishers and placard carrying youths when she arrived to debate four Democratic candidates for the right to represent the 11th Congressional district at El Camino High School gymnasium at night on Nov. 11, 1967, in South San Francisco. The campaign trail appears to agree with the former child movie star. General view shows Shirley and the democrats on the stand during debate. Democrats from left to right are Don Monaco, Andrew Baldwin, Roy Archibald and Edward Keating. (AP Photo/RHH) ( Shirley Temple Black Political Debate Arriving )
Shirley Temple Black and her family pose in front of the television set in their living room as they awaited the results of the Congressional election in San Mateo County on Nov. 14, 1967 in Woodside. With Candidate Black are her son, Charles Jr., 14; daughter Susan Agar, 19; husband, Charles A. Black, and daughter, Lori. (AP Photo/ Sal Veder) ( Shirley Temple Black )
Shirley Temple Black is sworn in as a U.N. delegate, Sept. 15, 1969. (AP Photo)
Shirley Temple Black, a U.S. delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, is shown before a press conference at the U.N. on Sept. 16, 1969. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano) ( Shirley Temple Black )
Former child star Shirley Temple Black raises her hand as she is sworn in as a representative in the U.S. delegation to the 24th regular session of the United Nations General Assembly which opened Sept. 16, 1969, in New York. At right is Charles W. Yost, permanent representative of the U.S. to the U.N., and at left is Joseph E. Johnson, president and trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who is being sworn in as an alternate representative. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano)
Shirley Temple Black, the United States Ambassador to Ghana from 1974-6, waves to the crowds from a palanquin at the Cape Coast Fetu Festival on Sept. 24, 1975. She was given a rousing welcome after being inaugurated as an honorary deputy Omanhene, a Paramount Chief. (AP Photo) ( TEMPLE VISITS GHANA )
Shirley Temple Black holds granddaughter Susan Teresa, 2, on Jan. 27, 1983, in California. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ( Shirley Temple Black )
Shirley Temple Black, center, is flanked by five other members of the Oakland Tribune board of directors, from left, Robert C. Maynard and Nancy Hicks Maynard, and Fred O. Wetton, Warren Lerude and Robert M. Fisher on April 30, 1983. (Howard Erker/Bay Area News Group Archives) ( Staff Photojournalist )
Shirley Temple Black displays some of her awards on January 1989. (AP Photo) ( Shirley Temple Black )
Shirley Temple Black, a former US ambassador, jokes with Archbishop Desmond Tutu as they await their turn to address the crowd at the UN Plaza on Market Street in downtown San Francisco. Ceremonies for the 50th anniversary of the UN Charter, in June 1995. (Eugene Louie/Bay Area News Group Archives) ( UN Temple/Tutu Joking el )
The four Grand Marshals of the 1999 Tournament of Roses Parade, from left are: astronaut Buzz Aldrin; Ray Bartlett, lifelong friend of baseball legend Jackie Robinson; film producer and documentarian David Wolper; and actress Shirley Temple Black are introduced, Thursday, Sept. 17, 1998 at the Tournament House in Pasadena, California. Tournament of Roses President Dick Ratliff chose the four 20th century legends because they epitomize the parade theme ?Echoes of the Century.? (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ( Grand Marshals of 1999 Tournament of Roses Parade )
Award recipient Shirley Temple Black, center, arrives with her husband Charles Black and son Charles Black Jr. at the Department of State for the Kennedy Center Honors Gala dinner on Dec. 5, 1998, in Washington. (AP Photo/Khue Bui) ( qtempl4.jpg )
Kennedy Center honorees (back row, from left, comedian Bill Cosby, songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, musician Willie Nelson, (front row, from left) former actress and ambassador to Czechoslovaki Shirley Temple Black, and composer and conductor Andre Previn pose for photographers after the awards ceremony at the Department of State Saturday, Dec. 5, 1998, in Washington. (AP Photo/Khue Bui) ( STF )
Shirley Temple Black, left, is greeted by President Bill Clinton during a reception on Dec. 6, 1998, at the White House. (Chris Kleponis/AFP/Getty Images) ( 526918188 )
Shirley Temple Black poses in her home in Woodside, Calif. on Thursday, June 17, 1999. At 71, Mrs. Black can reflect on a career that includes early stardom as a child actress and international prominence as U.S. ambassador to Ghana and later, U.S. chiefof protocol. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan) ( qstemple.jpg )
Texas Gov. George W. Bush poses with former child star and ambassador, Shirley Temple Black, at a fund-raising luncheon, Thursday, Sept. 30, 1999, in Redwood City, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) ( BUSH 2000 )
Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, former Hollywood star and forever "America's Little Darling" peacefully passed away at her Woodside, Calif.,home from natural causes,at the age of 85, on February 10, 2014 at 10:57 PM PST. She was surrounded by her family and caregivers. (Gabriel Moulin Studios, San Francisco)
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