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Shirley Temple

1928 - 2014

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Shirley Temple Black (born Shirley Jane Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American actress, singer, dancer, politician, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States. Temple began her film career in 1931 when she was three years old and became well known for her performance in Bright Eyes, released in 1934. She won a special Juvenile Academy Award in February 1935 for her outstanding contribution as a juvenile performer in motion pictures during 1934 and continued to appear in popular films through the remainder of the 1930s, although her subsequent films became less popular as she grew older. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shirley Temple is the 249th most popular actor (down from 248th in 2019), the 563rd most popular biography from United States (down from 477th in 2019) and the 131st most popular American Actor.

Shirley Temple is most famous for being a child actress who was very popular in the 1930s.

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Among actors, Shirley Temple ranks 249 out of 13,578. Before her are Danny Trejo, Olivia de Havilland, John Malkovich, Geoffrey Rush, Asta Nielsen, and Michael Clarke Duncan. After her are Jodie Foster, Laura Antonelli, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall, Vanessa Redgrave, and Rock Hudson.

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Among people born in 1928, Shirley Temple ranks 25. Before her are Zbigniew Brzezinski, Rinus Michels, Osamu Tezuka, Roger Vadim, Eddie Fisher, and Arnold Rüütel. After her are Alexander Grothendieck, Fidel Ramos, Yves Klein, Herbert Kroemer, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, and James Coburn. Among people deceased in 2014, Shirley Temple ranks 16. Before her are Wojciech Jaruzelski, Nadine Gordimer, Eli Wallach, Joe Cocker, Luis Aragonés, and Maximilian Schell. After her are Alexander Grothendieck, Lauren Bacall, Paco de Lucía, Jacques Le Goff, Robert A. Dahl, and Martin Lewis Perl.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shirley Temple ranks 563 out of 20,380. Before her are Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Michael Clarke Duncan (1957), Charles M. Schulz (1922), Jesse James (1847), Elinor Ostrom (1933), and Dan Brown (1964). After her are Harper Lee (1926), Jodie Foster (1962), Vesto Slipher (1875), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Robert Peary (1856), and Jeff Bridges (1949).

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Among actors born in United States, Shirley Temple ranks 131. Before her are Jim Belushi (1954), Kim Basinger (1953), Anne Hathaway (1982), Danny Trejo (1944), John Malkovich (1953), and Michael Clarke Duncan (1957). After her are Jodie Foster (1962), Jeff Bridges (1949), Lauren Bacall (1924), Rock Hudson (1925), Viggo Mortensen (1958), and Divine (1945).

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