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Post details: Happy Birthday Shirley

04/23/08

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Categories: Americana, Arts And Culture

Happy Birthday Shirley

It is hard to believe that the sweet little girl pictured above turns 80 years of age today!

Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) is an Academy Award-winning actress most famous for being an iconic American child actor of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult. After rising to fame at the age of six with her breakthrough performance in Bright Eyes in 1934, she starred in a series of highly successful films which won her widespread public adulation and saw her become the top grossing star at the American box-office during the height of the Depression. She went on to star in films as a young adult in the 1940s. In later life, she became a United States ambassador and diplomat.

For further information please see her wiki entry, and the Shirley Temple Official fan site.

As I child I really loved her films, and she is a reminder to me of a kinder, and gentler time as an eternal child

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