Guide Note

Academy Award winner Shirley Temple is an American actress writer from the early 1930s who starred in a number of children's classic movies. Her breakout role was in the movie Bright Eyes where she sang her trademark song On the Good Ship Lollipop.

Fast Facts

1. Born: April 23, 1928
2. Full name: Shirley Jane Temple
3. Birthplace: Santa Monica, California
4. Won an Academy Award at age six.
5. From 1937 to 1938 Temple was the box office champion in Hollywood.
6. Temple was a US ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.
7. Temple survived Breast Cancer.

Early Career

After Temple appeared in the movie Bright Eyes at the age of six, she became a instant star. From 1934 to 1949 she starred in over 40 movies such as The Little Colonel and The Littlest Rebel. The Little Princess, Heidi, Curly Top and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm are considered children's classics today and favored in homes all over.

Quotes

"I ran for Congress, just once."

"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."

"I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy."

"The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields."

"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."