In “The Littlest Rebel,” she said to the Abraham Lincoln character, “Mr. President, you won’t let them shoot my daddy, will you?”
The real president at the time, Franklin Roosevelt, said, “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we’ll be alright.”
Shirley Temple had it all as a child: her own car, an honorary Oscar, but the movie roles started to dry up when the adorable little girl grew into a nice but average-looking teenager.
The money was mostly gone, too, siphoned off by family and advisers. She retired from movie roles at the age of 21, not long after marrying one of her co-stars, John Agar.
But years later, there was an Act Two for Shirley Temple, whehn she became U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.
In 2006, she said, “Little Shirley always helps me open doors. But if I don’t know what to do or what to say or how to perform, then the doors close.”
Temple seemed to always know how to perform — always on-cue with that trademark giggle that made her an on-screen legend.
Among her many achievements, as listed in her official biography:
— Presented with the SAG Lifetime Achievement Award by Dakota Fanning and Jamie Lee Curtis. (January 2006)
Awarded the Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild. [January 2006]
U.S. Chief of Protocol
Delegate to the United Nations
Recipient of Kennedy Center Honors
Release of the book, “Shirley Temple: A Pictorial History of the World’s Greatest Child Star” by Rita Dubas
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