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NAME: Shirley Temple Black
PROFILE: Name: Shirley Temple Black
Birth Name: Shirley Jane Temple
Height: 5' 2"
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: April 23, 1928
Birth Place: Santa Monica, California, USA
Profession: Diplomat, former film child actress
Education: Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles, California
Santa Clara University and Lehigh University (received honorary doctorates)
College of Notre Dame (received a Fellowship)
Yale University (received a Chubb Fellowship)
Husband/Wife: Charles Alden Black (businessman; married on December 16, 1950; died on August 4, 2005), John Agar (actor; born on January 31, 1921; married on September 19, 1945; divorced on December 5, 1950; died on April 7, 2002 because of emphysema)
Father: George Francis Temple (banker; born in 1888, married in 1910, died in 1980)
Mother: Gertrude Amelia Krieger (born in 1893, died in 1977)
Brother: George Francis 'Sonny' Temple, Jr. (born in 1919; died in 1996), John Stanley 'Jack' Temple (born in 1915; died in 1985)
Son: Charles Alden Black Jr. (businessman; born on April 29, 1952; father: Charles Alden Black)
Daughter: Lori Alden Black (photographer; born on April 9, 1954; father: Charles Alden Black), Linda Susan Agar Falaschi (high school librarian; born on January 30, 1948; father: John Agar)
Claim to fame: Starred in classic films such as, 'Heidi', 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm' and 'Wee Willie Winkie'
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GOSSIP:
  • Broke her wrist in a fall at her North California home. (November 1, 2006)
  • In recent years she openly admitted to a mastectomy operation, perhaps the first public figure ever to do so, and she encouraged other women who required the surgery to follow her example without fear.
  • Charles Black the San Francisco businessman she married after divorcing John Agar admitted to her while they were courting that he had never seen any of her movies.
  • Her daughter Lorax (Lori Black) was the bass player for the rock band The Melvins .
  • When she was to play the part of the Beauty, in a production of Beauty and the Beast, she was amused when her then, very young, daughter remarked: Gee, Mom, you'll make a swell Beast!.
  • When 7-year-old Shirley Temple's life was insured with Lloyd's, the contract stipulated that no benefits would be paid if the child film star met with death or injury while intoxicated.
  • Her mother, Gertrude, did her hair in pin curls for each movie... every hairstyle had exactly 56 curls.
  • Became a Dame of Malta, although NOT from the officially recognized Roman Catholic order -- but rather from a non-Roman Catholic unaffiliated entity.
  • Actresses Shirley Jones and Shirley MacLaine were both named after her.
  • Learned her trade at Meglin's, a popular talent school. Judy Garland was once a fellow `Meglin Kiddie.'
  • From the 70s onward she has been active in politics for almost 30 years, she served as ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia and held other government-related positions in the U.S.
  • Appears on sleeve of The Beatles's Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
  • Auditioned twice to be in Our Gang / The Little Rascals. She apparently failed the first audition, and made the second while she was appearing in the Baby Burlesks series. Our Gang director Robert F. McGowan refused to agree to Shirley's mother's request that Shirley receive star billing with Our Gang, so she didn't get in.
  • Briefly considered for the role of Dorothy in THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939), but it was determined that her singing limitations were insurmountable, and Judy Garland, MGM's first choice, was cast instead.
  • Was voted the 38th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
  • MORE SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK TRIVIA
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