Shirley Temple Black: 1928-2014

In this 1933 file photo, child actress Shirley Temple is seen in her role as "Little Miss Marker." Shirley Temple, the curly-haired child star who put smiles on the faces of Depression-era moviegoers, has died. She was 85. Publicist Cheryl Kagan says Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died Feb. 10, 2014, surrounded by family at her home near San Francisco.

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In this November 1936 file photo, 8-year-old American child movie star Shirley Temple poses in Hollywood, Calif.

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

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In this 1936 file photo, actress Shirley Temple is photographed as she appeared in "Poor Little Rich Girl." Temple, who was born in 1928 and began acting at the age of three, received an honorary Academy Award in 1934 for her contributions as a child film star.

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Here is a headshot of Temple as a child star. Once she hit the double digits (10 and up), her popularity at the box office started to decline, though her career had a small resurgence a few years later.

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Child film star Shirley Temple arrives at one of her big Hollywood premieres June 26, 1937. This one was for "Wee Willie Winkie," in Hollywood June 26, 1937. From 1934 to 1938, she appeared in more than 20 feature films and was consistently the top U.S. movie star. As an adult, she entered politics and was U.S. ambassador to Ghana (1974-6) and to Czechoslovakia (1989-93).

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Here is Temple again in 1938, when she was 10 years old.

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Shirley Temple and Sgt. John Agar Jr. cut their cake on their wedding day Sept. 19, 1945. Their union would last five years, until 1950, when Temple met and married San Francisco businessman Charles Black. That marriage ended only with his death on Aug. 4, 2005.

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French Ambassador in Washington Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet (2nd R), flanked by his wife (R), shakes hands with US President Jimmy Carter, flanked by his wife Rosalynn Carter, on Jan. 22, 1977 as U.S. diplomat and actress Shirley Temple looks on.

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Shirley Temple Black is shown on Oct. 19, 1988, posing in front of a 1939 photo of herself as a child star. The Screen Actors Guild presented the 77-year-old Black with its Lifetime Achievement Award Jan. 29, 2006.

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Here is Shirley Temple Black as she appeared June 1, 1989. A breast cancer survivor, Mrs. Black has three children, a daughter with Agar and a son and a daughter with Black.

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Black is shown here testifying July 18, 1989, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during confirmation hearings on her nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, in Washington. Black had served as ambassador to Ghana during the Ford administration.

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Shirley Temple Black as she appeared on Feb. 22, 1993. She published a memoir titled "Child Star."

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President Bill Clinton greets Shirley Temple Black during a reception Dec. 6, 1998, at the White House before the 21st annual national Kennedy Center Honors. Black was among the honorees that year.

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Here is another shot of Shirley Temple Black as she appeared at the Kennedy Center honors in December 1998. Her fellow honorees that year were actor-comedian Bill Cosby, Broadway composers John Kander and Fred Ebb, singer-songwriter Willie Nelson and composer-conductor Andr

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Shirley Temple Black, a former Oscar winner, arrives at the 70th Annual Academy Awards ceremony March 23, 1998, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

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In this Jan. 1, 1999 file photo, Grand Marshall Shirley Temple Black waves to the crowd as she rides along the 110th Tournament of Roses Parade route in Pasadena, Calif.

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Shirley Temple Black, who was honored that night with a Life Achievement Award, arrives with her son, Charles Black Jr., at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles Jan. 29, 2006.

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Shirley Temple Black arrives for the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles Jan. 29, 2006. Black quietly celebrated her 80th birthday on April 23, 2008, after breaking her arm in a fall at her suburban San Francisco home.