Some of them were intimidated by her precocious polish. It was at one of those group lessons that a talent scout spotted her and cast the three-year-old in a series of one-reel comedies called “Baby Burlesks.” She soon graduated to features and starring roles over the next nine years, she’d make more than 20 features, most of them for Fox, and would become the studio's biggest (and littlest) asset.Īs a tyke, she worked with some of the top adult talent of the 1930s. It’s that image of the smiling, tap-dancing little girl in ringlets that will be remembered long after her death on Monday at age 85 from natural causes.īorn in Santa Monica, California, Temple took singing and dancing lessons as a toddler. On and off screen, she was an indomitable morale booster, singing and dancing her way through adversity with irrepressible spirit and effortless showbiz pizzazz. She may not have realized it at the time, but the movies she made during the 1930s-which made her the most famous and successful child star of all time-effectively helped America get through the Great Depression. Long before she left Hollywood and became a career politician and diplomat, Shirley Temple Black was a public servant.
1953: Temple, now Temple Black, at the Stork Club with husband Charles G.
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