- She now only refers to herself as Shirley Temple Black, not Shirley Temple
- Actresses Shirley MacLaine and Shirley Jones were both named after her
- Her earliest childhood style always had 56 curls, but later when the curls were bunched at the side of her head there were only 50
- Despite being thought of as a curly blonde with big blue eyes, Shirley's eyes have always been brown.
- Her daughter Lori was the bassist for the rock band The Melvins
- Her husband is an oceanographer and worked on the discovery of the Titanic
- She went to dancing school only when she was very little. Later she was sometimes trained by Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson. Fox wanted the public to think her dancing talents occured naturally
- She and Bojangles were the first inter-racial dancing couple in cinematic history
- Although Kathleen is sometimes reported as her first picture as an adult, she was really only 13 when she made it (and was publicised as being 12)
- There is a cocktail named after her. She hates the taste of it.
- The Fox on-lot childcare centre is named after her
- A clause added to a law regarding employment of children became known as the 'Shirley Temple Clause' as without it she wouldn't have been able to continue working
- Her contract specified that her skirts be kept short and her co-stars should pick her up and sit her on their laps as much as possible so her baby image would be preserved
- Her photo appears on the cover of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band more than anyone else: once next to Diana Dors (the lady at the front in the gold dress) and the top of her head can be seen between the wax figures of young John and Ringo. She also appears as a doll wearing a jumper saying "Welcome the Rolling Stones, Good Guys" on the right of the cover.
- She is the youngest person ever to have an entry in the Who's Who
- She is also the youngest person ever to recieve an Oscar
- The Good Ship Lollipop was an aeroplane
- If a curl didn't look blonde enough, her mother would use a cotton swab of peroxide
- Her film Since You Went Away was an attempt by Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck at another Gone With the Wind. It too turned out to be expensive and lengthy when finished. Even if it didn't do quite as well, it still was acclaimed and cleaned up at the box-office
- She was the first choice for Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, but Fox would not lend her to MGM
- She went to the same dancing school as Judy Garland, Meglin's
- The name 'Shirley' means 'bright clearing' and was originally a last name, then became popular for boys as a first name. The name became popular for girls after Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley however Ms Temple says her mother chose the name for no particular reason. The child star caused a new wave of popularity in the name for girls.
- Her biggest fans include Michael Jackson and Melissa Joan Hart
- She was in 12 films in 1934
- Remakes of The Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer and The Story of Seabiscuit are being made. Remakes of The Little Princess andHeidi have already been made, among others.
- When Shirley was to play the part of the Beauty, in a production of Beauty and the Beast her then very young daughter remarked: "Gee, Mom, you'll make a swell Beast!"
- The director of the remake of The Little Princess is directing the next film in the Harry Potter franchise
- Her life insurance at seven years old stipulated that no benefits would be paid if the child film star met with death or injury while intoxicated
- Her 1940 film, The Blue Bird was based on a play written by the bohemian symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck, who went on to win the Nobel Prize for literature. The main character in the play is actually Tyltyl, a boy, and Shirley's character Mytyl is more of a supporting character
- The main character of Wee Willie Winkie was also originally a boy
- The curlin the middle of her forehead was originally put there to hide a bruise from when she fell over during a film shoot
- Since they were so short on time during the shoot, Shirley's dance from Stand Up and Cheer! was actually a combination from her class at Meglin's
- She attempts to yodle in no less than two of her films
- She was seen as genuine child prodigy, like Mozart in her own field, and in a national standardised test she was ranked in the genius catagory
- It is said she could turn her back, close her eyes and listen to a tap dance, and then pick it up
- She was nicknamed One-Take Temple because she was so quick in getting her scenes right
- Her hair was naturally straight, but her mother began to curl it every night so it didn't get frizzy
- Her co-stars were amazed at her advanced tap-dance skills, and she would have loved to have kept learning drums if her mother hadn't hated the noise. But her studios gave up on trying to teach her ballet, piano and singing emotional ballads because, well, she sucked
- There is a rumour she is colour-blind. I doubt this is true
- In her younger roles, her characters were all called Shirley so she wouldn't get confused when people talked to her
- The Little Colonel originally had only its last scene in colour. This was common practice at the time, as producing a colour film was incredibly more expensive than black and white. Up to about the 1960's, only the most important and big-budget films were fully produced in colour
- The Little Colonel was nominated by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest films of all time, and was chosen to be specially preserved for cultural and historical importance
- When identified in a photo, Shirley Temple's stand-in, Marilyn Granas, pretended it was somebody else with the same name as she was sick of the 'celebrity' of such a role
- When asked "What if Baby Take A Bow isn't a hit?" six year-old Shirley answered "We will call it Baby Takes A Flop"!
- Toto the Dog from The Wizard of Oz stars in Bright Eyes
- In 1935, a poll of girls revealed that Shirley Temple was the person they most wanted to be, followed by Amelia Earheart and then Eleanor Roosevelt
- Harpo Marx wanted to adopt her --the public did too! It has been commented that the many films in which Shirley is adopted out are banking on this desire to foster her.
- When grown up she said, "I'm glad I grew up in Hollywood --who wouldn't be?"
- As a child Fox threw parties for her inviting all of Hollywood's children and all the presents were donated to charity before Shirley opened them.
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