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This video biography, part of the excellent A&E series, is crammed with clips from her movies and offers plenty of information on her two careers.

All All. Sign In. Shirley Jane Temple. Shirley Temple was easily the most popular and famous child star of all time. She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon progressed to super stardom. Shirley could do it all: act, sing and dance and all at the age of five! Fans loved her as she was bright, bouncy and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of dollars' worth of products that had her likeness on them.

Dolls, phonograph records, mugs, hats, dresses, whatever it was, if it had her picture on there they bought it.

In December , five-year-old Shirley Temple signed with a nearly-bankrupt Fox Studios.

Shirley was box-office champion for the consecutive years , beating out such great grown-up stars as Clark Gable , Bing Crosby , Robert Taylor , Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford. By , her popularity declined. Although she starred in some very good movies like Since You Went Away and the The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer , her career was nearing its end.

Later, she served as an ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. It was once guessed that she had more than 50 golden curls on her head. Spouses Charles Black December 16, - August 4, his death, 2 children. John Agar September 19, - December 5, divorced, 1 child. Lori Black. Susan Agar.