The New York Times called her "the nation's best-liked babykins." In the 1930s, her portrait showed up everywhere, from a poor black laborer’s cabin in South Carolina, to young Andy Warhol’s house in ...

Cultural historian John F. Kasson's "The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression" isn't a biography of the child star Shirley Temple, who died in February at age 85, nor is it a critical study of ...

Shirley Temple Black (born Shirley Jane Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child ...