This person died in 2014 at age 85. In the 1930s, she was a determined child actress who sang and tap-danced her way to the height of Hollywood stardom. For at least 5 consecutive years, she was the most popular movie star in America. She was appointed as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly by Richard Nixon. In 1972, she held a news conference in her hospital room after her mastectomy, encouraging women discovering breast lumps to not be afraid. She was the United States ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976, and to Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992. Today’s dead celebrity is Shirley Temple Black.

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New York Times Obituary for Shirley Temple Black

Classic Shirley Temple scene “On The Good Ship Lollipop”

“The Child Star Who Wasn’t a Cautionary Tale” from The Atlantic

Shirley Temple Black on Larry King Live

How to Make a Shirley Temple drink

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