Shirley Temple Black was born on April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014 and she was an American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman, and diplomat who was the number one Hollywood box office hit as a child actress from 1934 to 1938.
She was one of the famost actors at that time.
Shirley Temple Biography
She is the third child of homemaker Gertrude Temple and bank clerk George Temple. The family was of Dutch, English, and German descent. She had two brothers: John and George, Jr. The family moved to Brentwood, Los Angeles.
While at dance school, she was discovered by Charles Lamont who was a casting director for Educational Pictures. Temple hid behind the piano while she was in the study. Lamont took a liking to Temple and invited her to audition; he signed a contract with her in 1932.
Educational Pictures released Baby Burlesks ,10-minute comedy shorts lampooning recent movies and events, using preschoolers in all roles. Glad Rags to Riches was a spoof of the Mae West feature About Her She Was Hurt , with her as the saloon singer. Kid ‘n’ Africa put Shirley in danger in the jungle. Runt’s page was a pastiche of The Front Page . 
Shirley Temple Drink
A Shirley Temple is a non-alcoholic cocktail , named after the child film actress and later American diplomat Shirley Temple . It is composed of five measures of lemon-lime or ginger-ale soda and a touch of grenadine , decorated with a maraschino cherry and an orange slice . It is served in a flat glass or in a tall glass (in which case ice is added to the mixture).
Unlike other mixed drinks, created for adults but modified for children by removing the alcohol, the Shirley Temple has been modified by adding different alcoholic beverages to its recipe. For example, a Shirley Temple Black combines 7 Up , Kahlúa , and grenadine; and the Dirty Shirley (also known as Shirley Vomit ) is a combination of lemon-lime soda, vodka , and grenadine.
Shirley Temple Recipe
In a glass full of ice, pour the lime-flavored soft drink with a little natural orange juice, a touch of grenadine and decorate with some orange slices and a cherry.
It is a refreshing non-alcoholic cocktail that can also be served very cold in a flat glass (in this case, without ice) and with all the ingredients very cold. The rim of the glass is decorated by previously spreading it with grenadine and sugar to create a pearl effect on the surface. Serve very cold in any case.
How To Make A Shirley Temple
Ingredients
- 3 ounces lemon-flavored soda
- 3 ounces of ginger ale
- 1 splash of grenadine
- maraschino cherries
- Ice
In a Collins type glass, with ice, add the soda and ginger ale. Then add a dash of grenadine and stir well. Finally, garnish the drink with a maraschino cherry and that’s it.
Shirley Temple Movies
Fox Film composer Jay Gorney was walking out of sight of Temple’s latest film, Frolics of Youth, when he saw her dancing in the lobby of the theater.
Recognizing her from the screen, he arranged for her to have a screen test for the film Get Up and Cheer! Temple arrived for the audition on December 7, 1933; she won the role and was signed to a $150-a-week contract that was guaranteed for two weeks by the Fox Film Corporation.
The role was a breakthrough for Temple. Her charm was evident to Fox executives, and she was whisked into corporate offices almost immediately after finishing “Baby, Take a Bow,” a dance and song she performed with James Dunn.
Shirley Temple Career
Between January 1958 and September 1961, she hosted and narrated a successful NBC television anthology series of fairy tale adaptations called Shirley Temple’s Storybook . The episodes were one hour each, and Temple acted in three of the sixteen episodes. Temple’s son made his acting debut in the Christmas episode, “Mother Goose.”
The series was popular but faced problems. The show lacked the special effects necessary for fairy tale dramatizations, the sets were amateurish, and the episodes did not air in a regular time slot. The show was reworked and released in color in September 1960 in a regular time slot as The Shirley Temple Show .
However, it faced stiff competition from Maverick , Lassie , Dennis the Menace , the 1960 broadcast of The Wizard of Oz, and the Walt Disney anthology television series, and it was canceled at the end of the season in September 1961.
Temple was continuing to work on television, making guest appearances on The Red Skelton Show , Sing Along with Mitch , and other shows. In January 1965, she was playing a social worker in a pilot program called Go Fight City Hall that was never released. 
In 1999, she was hosting the AFI ‘s 100 Years. 100 Stars awards show on CBS, and in 2001 she was serving as a consultant on an ABC-TV production of her autobiography, Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story.
Motivated by the popularity of the Storybook and the television broadcasts of the Temple films, the Ideal Toy Company released a new version of the Shirley Temple doll, and Random House published three fairy tale anthologies under her name.
Three hundred thousand dolls were sold in six months and 225,000 books were sold between October and December 1958. Other merchandise included purses and hats, coloring books, a toy theater, and a recreation of the Baby, Take a Bow polka dot dress .
In 1935, Fox Films merged with Twentieth Century Pictures to become 20th Century Fox. Producer and studio head Darryl F. Zanuck focused his attention and resources on cultivating Shirley’s superstar status. She was said to be the studio’s biggest asset. Nineteen writers, known as the Shirley Temple Story Development Team, did 11 original stories and some adaptations of the classics for her. 
In keeping with his star status, Winfield Sheehan built Temple a four-bedroom bungalow in the studio with a garden, a fence, a tree with a swing set, and a rabbit pen.
The living room wall was painted with a mural depicting her as a fairy tale princess with a golden star on her head. Under Zanuck, she was assigned a bodyguard, John Griffith, a childhood friend of Zanuck’s, and, in late 1935, Frances “Klammie” Klampt became her tutor at the studio.
Shirley Temple Net Worth
She had a net worth of $30 million at the time of her death.
On July 18, 1934, the contract salary was raised to $1,000 per week; meanwhile, her mother’s salary was raised to $250 a week, with an additional $15,000 bonus for each film completed.
Temple’s original contract for $150 per week is equal to $2,960 in 2019, adjusted for inflation; however, the economic value of $150 during the Great Depression was equal to about $18, 500 in 2019 money due to the punitive effects of deflation, six times higher than a surface-level conversion.
The subsequent salary increase to $1,000 a week had the economic value of $123,000 in 2019 money, and the $15,000 per movie bonus ,equivalent to $296,000 in 2019, had the buying power of $1.85 million ,in 2019 money, in a decade in which a quarter could buy a meal. Cease and desist letters were sent to many companies and the process for corporate licensing was initiated. 
Shirley Temple Personal Life
In 1943, the 15-year-old Temple met John Agar (1921–2002), a sergeant in the Army Air Corps, a physical training instructor, and a member of a Chicago meatpacking family.
She married him at age 17 on September 19, 1945, before 500 guests at an episcopal ceremony at Wilshire Methodist Church in Los Angeles.
On January 30, 1948, Tshe was giving birth to a daughter, Linda Susan. Agar became an actor, and the pair made two films together: Fort Apache (1948, RKO) and Adventure in Baltimore.(1949, RKO). The marriage became troubled, and Temple divorced Hagar on December 5, 1949. She was awarded custody of her daughter.
In January 1950, she met Charles Alden Black a World War II Navy intelligence officer and Silver Star recipient who was an assistant to the president of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company. 
Conservative and patrician, he was the son of James Black, chairman and later president of Pacific Gas and Electric, and reputedly one of the richest young men in California. Temple and Black were married at her parents’ home in Del Monte, California, on December 16, 1950, before a small gathering of family and friends.
The family moved to Washington, D.C. when Black was called up for the Navy at the outbreak of the Korean War. On April 28, 1952, Temple gave birth to a son, Charles Alden Black Jr., in Washington. After the end of the war and Black’s discharge from the Navy, the family returned to California in May 1953.
Black ran the television station KABC-TV in Los Angeles, and she became in housewife. Her daughter, Lori, was born on April 9, 1954; She later became the bassist for the rock band The Melvins.
Shirley Temple Death
Shirley Temple has died at the age of 85, as announced by her family through the BBC channel. According to family sources, the actress died yesterday at her home in California from natural causes surrounded by her family and friends . 
The Hollywood child prodigy who rose to fame in the 1930s thanks to movies like Bright Eyes, Stand Up and Cheer and Curly Top , she had long since retired from the world of cinema. Her career died out in the late 1950s.
