After her film career effectively ended, she concentrated on raising her family and turned to television to host and act in 16 specials called “Shirley Temple’s Storybook” on ABC.

Shirley Temple, the child star to end all child stars - a box office sensation during one of the great ages of film and an inspiration to millions during the Depression - died Monday evening at ...

Shirley Temple Black, perhaps the biggest child star ... When British author Graham Greene, then an editor and film critic, wrote in a 1937 review that the 8-year-old Temple was an “adult ...

Here, she appears in a photo for the film “Little Miss Marker” in 1933. Her bright eyes and infectious smile made Shirley Temple a household name. Here, the young actress poses for a shot at ...

(Original Caption) 12/23/37-Hollywood, California: Escorted by two of the seven dwarfs that appear in the picture, Shirley Temple, child film star, is pictured arriving at the theatre for the ...

Attempts to extend her career into young womanhood were unsuccessful and she made her last film in 1949 — washed up in Hollywood at 21. Yet that was not the end of the Shirley Temple story.

Shirley Temple, the enchanting singing and dancing ... During this stretch, Fox reworked her contract to pay her $50,000 per film. The studio saw monstrous earnings from Temple’s pictures ...