English name: Shirley Temple
Chinese name: Shirley Temple
Birthplace: Santa Monica, California
Parents’ names: George Francis, Gertrude Temple
Personality: Shirley Temple is a very smart and clever girl.
Contribution: When Shirley Temple Black was a little girl, she was a real star, adored by hundreds of millions of fans who loved her.
Awards and other honors:
In 1935, Shirley Temple became the first child ever to win an Oscar! In the same year, the "American Academy of Motion Picture Science" also awarded her the title of "The Most Outstanding Individual of 1934".
Interesting Trivia
Twice when Shirley Temple was drunk, she called herself: Shirley Temple·Cocktail and Dirty Ghost·Show orchid. She also invented a color called "Temple Blue" for her wedding.
Shirley Temple's preferred word: "Oh, my dear"
She was the first woman in American history to serve as Chief of Protocol!
Shirley Temple has written an award-winning autobiography titled: "Child Star."
After she became famous, toys called "Shirley Temple" became popular everywhere in the world.
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This talented Hollywood child star in the 1930s set foot on the silver screen at the age of 4 and became popular in the world of film circles at the age of 6. At the age of 7, he won a special Oscar award. At the age of 10, he already dominated the Hollywood box office and became the most popular movie star.
During the desperate days of the 1930s, Shirley Temple, a little girl with curly hair, conquered the hearts of every audience with her singing and dancing. Not only was she the most popular actress during the Great Depression, she was also the most famous person of her time, and she was just an elementary school student at the time. Her appearance was like a dazzling light in the dark night. Deng Bo started dancing at the age of three. In 1934, she attracted attention with her singing and dancing performance in a film called "Stand Up and Cheer"; she subsequently signed a contract to star in children's roles, and within a few months she became famous and became the first child star. At the end of the year, she received a special Academy Award for her outstanding contribution to the film and entertainment industry in 1934. By 1938, she had taken the world by storm, and every film she made was a box office hit. She also promoted a number of industries: Shirley-Dengbo dolls, coloring books, clothing, etc. Today, there is no child on this earth as popular as Shirley Temple. However, as she entered adulthood, her fame plummeted. She continued to appear on the screen in the 1940s, and then left the stage at the age of 21.
When he reappeared 20 years later, he had become a rising star in politics.
Temple’s acting life was somewhat short, but the laughter she left to people was long-lasting. She was a little angel of that era.
Shirley Temple’s life can be called a legend, a myth that has lasted for 70 years.
On September 12, 2005, the Screen Actors Guild announced that they would award the "Lifetime Achievement Award" in recognition of career achievements and humanitarian contributions to Shirley Temple Black. Screen Actors Guild President Melissa Gilbert said, "I can't think of anyone more appropriate to receive this year's Lifetime Achievement Award than Shirley Temple. Her contributions to American entertainment are unprecedented. Her contribution to the world is even more inspiring."
Public Lover
The last time Temple appeared in the public eye was on March 23, 1998. At the 70th Academy Awards party. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Oscars, the organizers invited previous Oscar winners, including many big-name stars who are still active in the film industry.
When the host read Shirley Temple's name, the audience burst into thunderous applause. Young movie kings and movie queens stepped forward to pay tribute to the 70-year-old Temple. Most people's eyes were a little moist.
On the Academy Awards website that day, Temple was also the most popular, with more fans greeting and asking about her than any other movie star. Martin Lando, the 67th Oscar Best Supporting Actor winner who was also a guest at the party, said with emotion, "Many people in the audience grew up watching Shirley Temple's movies, and they have not seen it with their own eyes for many years. She is a monument to the film era, and no one has conquered the hearts of all Americans like her.”
Temple was born on April 23, 1928, in the famous coastal city of San Francisco, California. Monica is from a wealthy family. Her father, George Francis, is an accountant in a bank in Los Angeles, and her mother, Gertrude Temple, is the daughter of a Chicago jeweler. Both of them are of German descent and are extremely talented and good at Music, singing and dancing.
As a baby, Temple already showed an angelic sweet appearance, and inherited the talents of her parents. Not only did she have an excellent singing voice, but she also showed amazing coordination of movements. At the age of 3, Temple was sent to the famous Ethel Meglin Dance School. Soon after, she was discovered by a talent scout from a production company and became the heroine of the 26-episode series "The Pageboy". Temple, who was still illiterate at the time, had to read the script aloud to her every day in order to remember her dialogue, but her childish and natural performance attracted the attention of Hollywood.
In 1933, the famous 20th Century Fox Film Company signed a contract with Temple. According to the contract, Temple was arranged to undergo two years of professional training. The company provides Temple with a monthly training fee of US$150 and pays Temple's mother a monthly subsidy of US$25 to take care of her daughter.
A year later, Temple starred in the musical "Stand Up and Cheer." The film was a huge success, and the shrewd Fox Company immediately signed a seven-year performance contract with Temple. That year, she starred in 8 films for Fox, including "New Girls", "Little Angel", and "Little Lovers", all of which were hits. Paramount Pictures later loaned Temple to Fox to star in the movie "Little Miss Mark" for a rental fee of $1,000 a week. The film was screened with unprecedented success. A theater played the film to full houses for three consecutive weeks, setting a box office record of US$100,000. A neighboring theater re-screened the film and made an immediate profit of $60,000.
Deng Boer became a famous and talented child star. From 1934 to 1939, she ranked among the "Top Ten Most Popular Stars" for six consecutive years. She was not only an idol worshiped by children, but also became a treasure in the hearts of adults. She was called the "Little Lover of the Public."
In 1935, Temple won the 7th Academy Award for her outstanding performance in "Bright Eyes", becoming the only child in history to win this honor. At the same time, the American Academy of Motion Picture Science also awarded her the title of "The Most Outstanding Individual of 1934". This year, 7-year-old Temple left her own sibling marks and the words, "I love you all!" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Growing Pains
Eileen Chang once said that you should become famous as early as possible. Temple perhaps best fits this criteria. The price of premature fame is the loss of childhood. She has a famous saying, "When I was 6 years old, I didn't believe that Santa Claus really existed. That day, my mother took me to a department store to see him, but he asked me to give him an autograph."
Years later, Temple recalled her childhood and said, "I only lived a lazy baby life for two years, and then I worked all the time." At that time, she had to work 5 hours a day, and she usually worked at 8 on weekends. More than 1 hour, in addition to studying with a private teacher for 3 hours a day. If you don't obey during filming, you will be locked in a small dark room filled with ice. The young Temple didn't know how to complain, "I think every child is working." But she often yawned all the time while working, and her mother had to remind her from time to time, "Xiulan, be energetic, be energetic!"
At this cost, Temple earned a huge fortune for her family.
According to her contract with Fox, Temple received a huge salary of US$1,500 per month, which was dozens of times the income of the average adult at the time. By the end of the 1930s, Temple's salary had exceeded $120,000, plus $200,000 in bonuses, and the movie ticket price at the time was only 15 cents.
In 1939, as Temple's childishness gradually faded, MGM wanted to use her to star in "The Wizard of Oz" as a girl, but this request was rejected by Fox, who instead arranged for her to star in "Little Orphan". female". This caused Temple to miss an important opportunity for transformation, which also heralded the end of her acting career. "The Wizard of Oz" achieved unprecedented success. In the 1998 selection of the 100 best Hollywood films in the century since the birth of movies, the film was selected as the runner-up after "Citizen Kane". Temple's concession created another Hollywood child star, Judy Garland. However, her own "Little Orphan" did not receive a good response. The 11-year-old girl pretended to be cute, and the effect is conceivable.
The little baby with a head full of blond curly hair, who tap dances with chubby calves, and who calls herself "Shirley Temple Cocktail and Shirley Shirley" after being drunk has grown up. The reality was difficult for the audience to accept, and Temple's charm gradually lost. She herself began to get tired of her acting career. In the late 1940s, after starring in her 43rd film, Temple withdrew from the film industry.
In 1945, Temple married the brother of a high school classmate, John Agar, a U.S. Airman. Aga drank excessively after her marriage, was arrested for driving under the influence many times, and wanted to enter the entertainment industry as an actor, which disappointed Temple. The marriage broke up five years later, when their daughter Susan was just 2 years old.
After the divorce, Temple went to Hawaii to relax and met Charles Black, who graduated from Stanford and Harvard University and was the assistant to the president of Pineapple Company in Hawaii at the time. To Temple's surprise, Charles had never seen any of the movies she starred in. However, she was still cautious and asked her old friend Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, to investigate Charles' background. An investigation revealed that Charles was "as pure as applesauce" and they were married on December 16, 1950. After the marriage, Temple officially ended her 19-year film career and moved to the suburbs of San Francisco with her husband. They gave birth to two more children, Lois and Charles Jr.
Forever Angel
"The New York Times" once commented, "People may still debate whether Shirley Temple is the most talented child star of all time, but there is one thing It is undeniable that she is the most popular child actor in history."
In the early 1930s, the United States was experiencing the largest economic crisis in history, with companies closing down, workers losing their jobs, and people living in dire straits. The appearance of the little angel Temple brought sweet comfort to the pessimistic Americans. Even President Roosevelt was a loyal "fan" of hers. In 1938, Roosevelt's wife Eleanor wrote an article for the American "Movie" magazine, revealing that they had watched almost all the films starring Shirley Temple. Roosevelt himself publicly praised Temple for "bringing smiles to millions of Americans during the Great Depression."
"Temple Fever" also contributed to economic development. Although the film studios at that time were not very good at developing spin-off industries, products named after "Temple": Temple handkerchiefs, Temple clothing, Temple soap, Temple coloring books, and even Temple Cocktails have entered thousands of households. There was even a rush to buy a "Temple doll" worth $45 million. This has to be said to be a miracle during the post-war economic depression.
In the 1950s, after retiring from the film industry, Temple began to devote herself to humanitarian causes. Temple co-founded the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies in 1952 after her brother George became ill with the disease. Twenty years later, Temple herself developed breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy. She also became the first celebrity to disclose her medical history to the public and advocate for the prevention and treatment of breast cancer.
Since 1967, Temple began to be active on the American political stage.
She was recommended by the Democratic Party to run for the U.S. Congress. Although she was eliminated in the primary stage, she attracted the attention of President Nixon. In 1969, Nixon appointed her as a representative to the 24th United Nations General Assembly. In 1974, when President Ford was in office, she became the first female ambassador to Ghana in the history of the United States. Two years later, she served as Director of the Protocol Department of the State Department. President Ford's evaluation of the first woman to hold such an important position in the history of the United States was, in two words, "first-rate." In 1989, she entered politics for the last time and was appointed ambassador to the former Czechoslovakia by President Bush for a three-year term.
In April 1977, Shirley Temple visited China. Only then did Chinese audiences get to know this once-famous movie star on television. After that, with the broadcast of the Temple series of movies on CCTV, the "Temple Cyclone" swept China 40 years late.
Today, when Chinese children are still fascinated by the cute "angel" on the screen, Temple is already an old woman in her eighties. After retiring from the political stage, she spent her remaining years in a Spanish-style hilltop garden house overlooking the San Francisco Bay in Woodside, California. She enjoys spending time with cats and dogs, gardening, and golf. She also enjoys raising horses and riding horses, and collects all souvenirs and videos related to her to pass the time.
Shirley Temple was proud of her wonderful life. She told the media, "If I could live again, I would not make any changes in my life."
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