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For four consecutive years Shirley Temple was the world’s box-office champion, a record never equaled. By early 1935 her mail was reported as four thousand letters a week, and hers was the second-most popular girl’s name in the country. What distinguished Shirley Temple from every other Hollywood star of the period - and everyone since - was how brilliantly she shone.

Shirley Temple (April 23, 1928 - February 10, 2014) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Temple began her film career in 1931 when she was three years old. In 1935, she received a special Juvenile Academy Award for her contributions in motion pictures. Temple embarked on her U.S. diplomatic career in 1969, later being named Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.

La extraordinaria niña de -los bucles dorados- fue la gran niña prodigio de Hollywood que cantaba y bailaba tap a su manera en los escenarios, y que pronto conquistó los corazones de América a través de la pantalla gigante en los años 30. Su carisma, gran capacidad para conectarse con las masas y su imagen sumamente dulce, hicieron historia.