Shirley Temple was the ... second career as a diplomat. Temple was an able actress. She was very touching in “The Little Princess,” as the girl who refused to believe that her beloved father ...

The little girl who danced down the stairs with ... Roosevelt observed that “as long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.” And it was so. From the age of 6, she won over ...

If ever a performer came along at just the right time, it was Shirley ... Kasson's "The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression," which arrives just two months after Temple's death at age ...

Kasson's "The Little Girl Who Fought the ... household furnishings and clothing, a Shirley Temple would be a frightening, Mao-esque thing indeed. But in the ’30s our mass consumer culture ...

With the recent death of Shirley ... While Temple (April 23, 1928-Feb. 10, 2014) smiled and cheered and tap-danced across racial boundaries with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (The Little Colonel ...

Shirley Temple ... By 1940, when Temple was 11, Mickey Rooney took over as the box-office favorite, which put an end to Temple's Fox contract. No longer a little girl, she continued to make ...

Mothers dressed their little girls like her ... Roosevelt to say that “as long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.” “When the spirit of the people is lower than at ...

The New York Times called her "the nation's best-liked babykins." In the 1930s, her portrait showed up everywhere, from a poor black laborer’s cabin in South Carolina, to young Andy Warhol’s ...

I'm not usually one to get all emotional about a celebrity's passing, but upon hearing that Shirley Temple has died ... and-white movies featuring the little girl with those perfect, pull-me ...

Temple plugged her ears as her father shot a federal agent's gun while FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover gave her a tour of headquarters in Washington, D.C. In 1935's "The Little Colonel," Shirley ...

At the age of 85, former child star and American icon Shirley ... Temple Black will be remembered for her roles in 1930s films, including “The Little Colonel,” “Poor Little Rich Girl, ...