Remembering Shirley Temple Black: 1928-2014

Remembering Shirley Temple Black: 1928-2014

The cherished actress, U.N. diplomat and U.S. ambassador died Monday night at age 85. 

 

 U.S.News & World Report

 

 

 

 

Actress Shirley Temple and husband John Agar play with their three-month-old daughter, Linda Susan Agar, on May 2, 1948, in Hollywood, Calif. Temple and Agar divorced in 1949.

 

John Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, signs Shirley Temple's autograph books after he was made a member of the Shirley Temple Police Force on on Aug. 16, 1937

Shirley Temple Black acts in the 1939 film "The Little Princess."

Shirley Temple acts in the 1933 film "Little Miss Marker."

Shirley Temple Black accepts the Screen Actors Guild Awards life achievement award at the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 29, 2006, in Los Angeles. Black acted in dozens of films, overcame breast cancer and was an active Republican fundraiser

Shirley Temple Black visits London on March 15, 1965. President Richard M. Nixon named Black a delegate to the United Nations in 1969

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Shirley Temple in July 1938. Temple went on to also serve as U.S. ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976

 

President Bill Clinton greets Shirley Temple Black during a reception on Dec. 6, 1998, at the White House. In 1989, Black served as the U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the fall of communism in one of her many political roles throughout her career

American child actress Shirley Temple, who rose to fame for films like "Bright Eyes" in 1934, died Monday night at her home in Woodside, Calif. She was 85