According to her biography, Temple was born in Santa Monica, California in 1928.
Just one year after Temple’s birth, theGreat Depressionhit the nation.
Without their daughter’s rapid success, the Temple family may have ended up living a very different life.
So, just who was this amazing little girl and what was her life like as an adult?
Here’s her untold truth.
Temple’s character in the film, however, was not exactly an appropriate fit at all.
Temple played an exotic dancer you could’t make this stuff up for soldiers who were also played by children.
It’s in that film that Temple gets her first kiss.Eek.
Temple’s career continued with a series of equally cringe-worthy short films.
AsTimereported, thechild starwould deliver lines like, “I’m expensive” and exchange kisses for lollipops.
Equally terrible was the title of the series: “Baby Burlesks.”
According to The New York Times, she was also photographed more frequently than President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
After audiences saw the film, you could say Temple’s stardom exploded.
However, there’s no evidence that Temple was negatively affected by her child stardom.
In fact, there’s evidence to the contrary.
Unlike the familiar trope of the stage mom, Temple clarified that her mom wasn’t pushy.
“In fact, many times, I think, I pulled her around,” said Temple.
When 20th Century Foxdecided not to renew Temple’s contractin 1940, the Temples took it in stride.
The two married in 1945.
He also took a swing at acting, but wasn’t what many would consider to be successful.
In fewer than 60 days post-divorce, 21-year-old Temple got engaged again.
Their marriage lasted almost 55 years, until he passed away in 2005.
According toSmithsonian Magazine, Temple was tired of being selected for the same types of roles over and over.
As this was the ’60s, this was no easy feat.
She continued, “One congresswoman among 38 congressmen is not unfair, fellows.”
Much to Temple’s chagrin, she lost out to Republican Pete McCloskey.
In 1969, President Richard M. Nixon appointed Temple as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.
Temple fully embraced her new lifestyle and led discussions about everything from banking to women’s liberation.
“I always felt comfortable in Ghana,” the child-star-turned-Ambassador told theBucks County Courier.
In 1976, Temple made history by becoming the first female Chief of Protocol.
And that she did.
Temple informed the president, “He smiled; he was very pleased, and wished me well.”
It’s not everyday that a person can serve as a chief in one country, let alone two.
In this period of history, some doctors would also perform mastectomies under the guise of biopsies.
The rationale being that women would not be able to handle the difficult news prior to the procedure.
Yeah, okay doc.
Luckily for Temple, her doctors didn’t keep her in the dark.
Temple also didn’t intend to keep her diagnosis a secret from anyone.
After having a mastectomy, Temple held a press conference in the hospital to talk about it.
Temple sadly passed away on February 10, 2014, at the age of 85.
The actress-turned-diplomat’s former publicist, Cheryl Kagan, spoke withCNNthe next day.
When asked how Temple looked back on her life, Kagan explained, “She was still busy working.
She did it every day.”
Perhaps we’ll find out even more truths about the late and great Shirley Temple.
