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Shirley Temple was the best known
Hollywood child star of the 1930s, who at age of 3, became a massive box office
draw commanding a then unheard of salary of $50,000 per movie. She retired from
filmmaking at 22 and married Charles Black, changing her last name from Temple
to Temple Black. She enjoyed a career as a diplomat when she took on a new
career as a foreign diplomat and served as a U.S. ambassador to Ghana from 1974
to 1976, and U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992. She also
served in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations from 1969 to 1974.
Shirley died late Monday night of
natural causes at her Woodside, California, home, surrounded by family and
caregivers, her publicist said. She was 85. "We salute her for a life of
remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our
beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife of fifty-five
years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black," her publicist
said.
Her first film of notice was in
1932 when she played in "War Babies," part of the "Baby
Burlesks" series of short films. She remained a cultural icon for decades
after stepping down from the silver screen. In 1958, she made a comeback as an
entertainer, this time on television, in an hourlong show, "Shirley
Temple's Storybook." She later received two lifetime achievement awards
for her performing career. In 1972, Temple Black successfully battled breast
cancer. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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