Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple (23.4.1928 - 10.2.2014) Shirley Temple was an American film and television actress, most famous for her work as a child actress during the 1930s.

Net Worth: At the time of her death in 2014, Shirley Temple had a net worth of 30 million USD, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

Childhood: Born in Santa Monica, California, to Gertrude Amelia Temple and George Francis Temple, Shirley Temple was encouraged from a young age to learn singing, dancing and acting. At the age of two, Temple was learning at Meglin's Dance School in Los Angeles. By the age of three, she had already signed an acting contract with Educational Pictures to appear in their show Baby Burlesks. In 1932, Temple appeared in her first feature film The Red-Haired Alibi, and when Educational Pictures went bankrupt the following year, her father bought back her contract for 25 USD.

Career: In 1933, Shirley Temple stared in her first major role in the film Stand Up and Cheer! for Fox Films. As Temple became more and more of a box-office draw, she began to earn a higher and higher paycheque, working for 1000 USD a week in 1934. This year also saw Temple win the first ever Juvenile Oscar for her accomplishments at that time. In 1935, Temple's salary increased to 2,500 USD a week as she began to work on around four films per year, following Fox Films' merge with 20th Century Pictures in the same year.

President Roosevelt commented on how she was bringing such joy to the depression era American people. Between this and her official retirement from films in 1950, Shirley Temple stared in 43 feature films, as well as 14 short films and 25 storybook movies.

Personal life: In 1945 at the age of 17, Shirley Temple married John Agar and they had a daughter three years later. In 1949, the couple separated and Temple met and married Charles Alden Black in 1950. On the 10th of February, 2014, Shirley Temple died of natural causes at the age of 85.