From iconic child star to political activist, PEOPLE honors the legacy of the curly-haired cutie The curly hair! The dimples! The infectious grin! Shirley Temple, born April 23, 1928, kicked off ...

Shirley Jane Temple was born on April 23 ... Her most famous films were The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel and Bright Eyes, where she performed her popular rendition of On The Good Ship ...

Shirley Temple sang and danced her way to becoming ... including the 1935 Civil War saga The Littlest Rebel and 1935's The Little Colonel, which featured the pair's famous staircase tap dance ...

Now, the Screen Actors Guild will honor Shirley Temple Black ... stardom in movies such as "Little Miss Marker," "Baby Take a Bow," and "The Little Rebel." The star of more than 40 films, most ...

The Littlest Rebel, Captain January ... According to John Kasson’s The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America (W. W. Norton & Company, $27.95), Hollywood ...

Shirley Temple was a key icon of the Depression ... racial boundaries with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel), her international celebrity, in fact, was unique ...

I WAS TAKEN aback recently to read that Shirley Temple — “Little Miss Marker,” “Curly Top,” “The Littlest Rebel” — had died. She was 85, but to most of the world she was still just ...

Shirley Temple was as big a part ... Her movie, The “Littlest Rebel” cemented my dislike of war. When Shirley did a ballet dance in “The Little Princess,” we sisters were sure if we ...

Click below to view a (colorized) tap dance routine featuring Temple and Robinson from "The Littlest Rebel ... have Shirley Temple for decades to come, though obviously not always as a little ...

Child star who helped the US through the Depression and went on to serve as an ambassador, writes Chris Maume Shirley Temple ... The Little Colonel and The Littlest Rebel. Their tap dance up ...