Shirley Temple Informative Speech

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Shirley Temple was a sign of good times and cheer during the Great Depression. Shirley was a talented singer and dancer. She starred in movies, short films, and even has books about her. Her nickname was Little Miss Miracle. Shirley Temple became the nation's obsession from her singing and dancing in movies.

Shirley was born in Santa Monica, California on April 23, 1928. She's the youngest of the three. She has two brothers, Jack and George Jr. George Francis Temple and Gertrude Amelia Krieger were Shirley's parents. Gertrude and George got married in 1914. Her mother signed her up for dancing at age 3. In 1934 Shirley landed a role in Fox Film Corporation's new film “Stand Up and Cheer”. “ Stand Up and Cheer” was her first major film and the beginning of becoming one of the greatest star in the world.

Shirley went to an all girl school called Westlake School for girls. She began working in movies at the age of five. As Shirley got older she starred in more films. She starred in fourteen short films, forty-three feature films, and over …show more content…

As she got older she ran for Congress in 1967 and was defeated. Shirley served as a delegate on the Joint Committee for the USSR-USA Environmental Treaty. In 1972 she was appointed to be representative for the UN conference on the Human Environment. She went on to be the U.S ambassador to the republic of Ghana, and the U.S ambassador of Czechoslovakia. President Gerald Ford made Shirley Chief of Protocol for the U.S. In 2005 she received a Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild. Shirley also earned an academy award for the song “On A Good Ship Lollipop,” when it became famous in the 1930s. She wrote her bibliography, Child Star, in 1988. Shirley died on February 10, 2014 in California. The cause of her death was pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She died at the age of eighty-five. Shirley’s life span was from

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