Shirley Temple was born on April 23, 1928, in Santa Monica, California as the third child of Gertrude and George Temple. In 1931, Shirley was enrolled in Meglin’s Dance School in Los Angeles and was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the recent death of Shirley Temple Black at age 85, the timing of John F. Kasson's elucidating cultural history of Hollywood's most popular child star makes it a must-read. Shirley Temple was a ...

When the pint-sized actress and the tap-dancing legend performed their "stair dance" in The Little Colonel, it was considered the first... Shirley Temple And Bojangles: Two Stars, One Lifelong ...

I learned only yesterday that Shirley Temple, the iconic child actress, died earlier this week at age 85. Reports on her death were easy to miss. I went through my usual scan of various websites and ...

Jane Withers, the former child actor who bedeviled Shirley Temple on the screen and went on to star in a series of B movies that made her a box-office champion, has died, her daughter said. She was 95 ...