Biography: Shirley Temple - The Biggest Little Star  (1999)

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Biography: Shirley Temple - The Biggest Little Star

Part of the Biography television series from A&E, this documentary reviews the career and personal life of actress and diplomat Shirley Temple. She was discovered at a dancing school and at age three and a half was appearing in a series of short films. In 1934 she made nine movies, and won a special Academy Award for her "outstanding contributions to screen entertainment" that year. For the next six years she was not only one of the most popular and best paid of all movie stars, she inspired a virtual cult of adulation and name-brand products. As she moved into her teens, her appeal and career faltered and she effectively retired from the movies in 1950; attempts to revive her career on television in 1958 and in 1960 also failed. Married to business executive Charles Black in 1950, Shirley Temple Black unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the House of Representatives and Senate. Her political career contined as she was appointed a US representative to the United Nations, ambassador to Ghana, White House chief of protocol, and ambassador to Czechoslovakia. ~ John Patrick Sheehan, All Movie Guide