Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) is an Academy Award-winning actress most famous for being an iconic American child actor of the 1930s, although she is also notable for her diplomatic career as an adult. After rising to fame at the age of six with her breakthrough performance in Bright Eyes in 1934, she starred in a series of highly successful films which won her widespread public adulation and saw her become the top grossing star at the American box-office during the height of the Depression. She went on to star in films as a young adult in the 1940s. In later life, she became a United States ambassador and diplomat. Shirley Temple Q&A "I have been kind of not doing a lot right now." -->

In 1958-61, Shirley Temple made a brief return to show business with a one-hour television series. Shirley Temple's Storybook premiered on NBC January 12, 1958 and moved to ABC in 1959, when it last aired on December 1 of that year. On September 11, 1960 it returned to NBC under the title The Shirley Temple Show and last aired September 10, 1961 , with much the same format that it had featured under its previous title. The show featured adaptations of fairy tales and other family oriented stories. Shirley Temple starred as the Hostess and occasional narrator/actress. The show went off the air when Walt Disney moved his television series from ABC to NBC in September of 1961.

One of its most notable episodes was an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Land of Oz, starring Ms. Temple as Tip and Ozma, Sterling Holloway as Jack Pumpkinhead, Ben Blue as the Scarecrow, Gil Lamb as the Tin Woodman, and Agnes Moorehead as Mombi. Presented nine months after what was only the second telecast of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the show was very likely motivated by the recent great success of the MGM classic on television.

Shirley Temple was easily the most popular and famous child star of all time. She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon progressed to super stardom. Shirley could do it all: act, sing and dance and all at the age of five! Fans loved her as she was bright, bouncy and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of dollars worth of products that had her likeness on them. Dolls, phonograph records, mugs, hats, dresses, whatever it was, if it had her picture on there they bought it. Shirley was the box-office champion for three straight years, 1936-37-38, beating out such great grown up stars as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor (I), Gary Cooper (I) and Joan Crawford (I). By 1939, her popularity declined. Although she starred in some very good movies like Since You Went Away (1944) and the Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The (1947), her career was nearing its end. Later, she served as an ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. It was once guessed that she had more than 50 golden curls on her head.