Gifted as a great artist and a career as a true Hollywood star, not everyone knows that Temple was also a staunch environmentalist.
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousThe well-known Golden curls and that little voice that took the lead at every opportunity: Shirley Temple for decades, perhaps a little less is known today, the enfant prodige that everyone aspired to. Her talents as a great artist, which earned her an Oscar at just 6 years old, and a career as a true Hollywood star, but not everyone knows that she was also one convinced environmentalist and who cleared two words: breast cancer.
Today Google dedicates its Doodle to her: on this day in 2015, in fact, the Santa Monica History Museum opened “Love, Shirley Temple”, a special exhibition with a collection of her rare relics.
Portrayed in a painting by Salvador Dalì, who appeared twice on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, Shirley Temple was the prototype of the child actress, brilliant, graceful and with a rare charisma.
Shirley Temple was born on April 23, 1928 in Santa Monica, California, the third daughter of a housewife and a bank clerk. In 1932 he made his debut in the short film The Red-Haired Alibi, which was followed by roles in The Triumph of Life, Little Star, Revelation, The Little Colonel, A Corner of Heaven, The Little Rebel and Goldilocks, films almost all concocted on the figure of the wise and happy child and the moments when she sang and danced.
Between 1932 and 1935, Shirley became a true media and cultural phenomenon, complete with merchandising products. She still followed a smash hit, but at 22, after the Second World War, some of her problems and when her films had long since ceased to please, Shirley Temple retired from the cinema. She died at age 85 in her California home.
“Little Miss Miracle”, as they called the little Temple, was cheerful and that was enough. And there is talk of a difficult period for America in those years, taken by the aftermath of the Great Depression. It was referring to her that President Franklin Roosevelt said:
It's great that for just 50 cents an American can go to the movies, see a little girl's smiling face, and forget about her problems.
The environmentalist commitment
In 1969, Temple was appointed United States Representative to the United Nations. From there she embarked on an intense career in politics which included a ambitious environmental commitment, enough to then represent his nation in 1972 at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. In recognition of her diplomatic achievements, she was named Honorary Foreign Service Officer in 1988, while in 2006, the Screen Actors Guild awarded her Temple the Lifetime Achievement Award, the organization's highest accolade. Finally, the ranking drawn up in 1999 by the American Film Institute, AFI'S 100 Years, 100 Stars, which includes the best American actresses and actors who made their screen debut before the 50s, came in 18th place.
Breast cancer
Shirley Temple was one of the first celebrities to publicly say she has cancer and the first to start a full-scale crusade towards breast cancer awareness and early detection. She must always be remembered as a major cancer crusade.
It was 1972 when she told the world, aged 44, that she had developed cancer and had undergone a mastectomy:
The only reason I'm saying this is to get other women to pay attention to any unusual lumps or symptoms. There is an almost certain cure for this cancer if it is diagnosed early enough, she said at the time.
Source: Google
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