Born on April 23, 1928, Shirley Temple began dancing at the age of three and by the end of the year she was acting as well.
It was that combination of dancing and acting, along with her golden curls, that she would be most remembered for.
At the age of six, she became the youngest Oscar winner, in history.
During World War II, she traveled the US and Canada raising money for troops.
She continued to act until she was twenty-one when she retired from the career, having made fourteen short films and forty-three full length.
In 1967, she stepped back into a public life, running as a Republican nominee for Congress, but lost.
Then, in 1969, President Nixon appointed her as a US Representative to the United Nations.
Temple dealt with breast cancer and a mastectomy, in 1972, and became one of the first celebrities to openly discuss breast cancer.
For a year and a half President Ford appointed her as the US Ambassador to Ghana, in 1974, followed by a stint as Chief of Protocol, in 1976.
Under George H. W. Bush she served three years as the Ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
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