Black passed away Monday night at her home in Woodside, California from natural causes.
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An enormous star and child prodigy in her heyday, Shirley Temple Black began her acting career at the tender age of 3 with singing and dancing chops that proved irresistible. Her most famous song, “On the Good Ship Lollipop” riveted audiences and cemented her as a true “triple-threat.”
Her top movies include the films “Bright Eyes,” “Stand Up and Cheer” and “Curly Top.” Undoubtedly one of her best known claims to fame is the popular “Shirley Temple” non-alcoholic drink named in her honor.
Black ended her acting career in 1950 at the age of 21 and after a break, returned to the public eye by running for Congress as a Republican. She later became the U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.
Black married her first husband at 17, but it didn’t last. Her second marriage to Charles Black endured.
Black’s family and caregivers were with her when she died.
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In a statement, her family said, “We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for 55 years of the the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.”
Shirley Temple Black was 85.
What can be said? So long Shirley.