Emmy Rossum: "My first acting inspiration. Shirley Temple. Rest in peace." Bo Derek: "RIP Shirley Temple On her 1st official date with my husband [John Derek] at Academy Awards. @TheAcademy pic ...

2002-04-12 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- John Agar, whose marriage to Shirley Temple in the 1940s propelled him into an acting career that began promisingly with parts in two classic John Ford ...

Temple’s acting career waned as she became a teenager. Shirley Temple married her first husband, Sgt. John Agar Jr., on Sept. 19, 1945, in Hollywood. The couple was married for only four years ...

Shirley Temple ... the first girl in my class to get married," Temple recalled to PEOPLE in 1988, and by 17 years old, she was at the altar with John Agar, the brother of one of her classmates ...

Feb. 11, 2014— -- Former childhood movie star Shirley Temple has died ... At 17, she married John Agar, but the marriage didn't last. Her second marriage, to San Francisco businessman ...

Shirley Temple was Hollywood’s biggest box office star in the 1930s, starring in nearly 30 movies before she reached the age of 10. Agar and Temple tied the knot in 1945, when Temple was just 17 ...

Shirley Temple Black ... Two of her films released in 1937 were among Temple’s favorites -- the John Ford-directed “Wee Willie Winkie,” in which she wins over a British outpost in India ...

Such was the power of Shirley Temple during the Great Depression, a dark time when millions were out of work and struggling to survive. Into their midst came a little girl in curls, whose films ...

And determined to be the first in her class to become engaged, she accepted a ring from 24-year-old Army Air Corps sergeant John Agar a ... not drinking a Shirley Temple,’” her longtime ...

Completely edgeless, ABC's "Child Star: The Shirley ... Mayer (John O’May) wanted to “trade” Clark Gable and Jean Harlow to Darryl Zanuck (Steven Vidler) for Temple, but Harlow’s death ...

With the recent death of Shirley Temple Black at age 85, the timing of John F. Kasson's elucidating cultural history of Hollywood's most popular child star makes it a must-read. Shirley Temple was ...