Facts about Shirley Temple
Between January and December 1958, Temple hosted and narrated a successful NBC television anthology series of fairy tale adaptations called Shirley Temple's Storybook.
In 1941, Temple worked on the radio with four shows for Lux soap and a four-part Shirley Temple Time for Elgin.
Shirley Temple was born on April 23, 1928, in Santa Monica, California.
Nineteen writers known as the Shirley Temple Story Development team created 11 original stories and several adaptations of the classics for her.
In 1939, Temple was the subject of the Salvador Dalн painting Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time.
The show was reworked and released in color in September 1960 in a regular time-slot as The Shirley Temple Show.
In 1999, she hosted the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars awards show on CBS, and, in 2001, served as a consultant on an ABC-TV production of her autobiography, Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story.
Shirley Temple died of natural causes on February 10, 2014, at the age of 85.
Shirley Temple Black (nйe Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and public servant, most famous as a child star in the 1930s.
