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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 1947, John Ford and John Wayne kicked off the ... was newly married to his Miss Philadelphia Thursday co-star Shirley Temple. The director would constantly call him Mr Temple in front ...

Roosevelt attempted to lift the country ’s spirits. “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right,” he said. “It is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents, an American ...

Buddy Ebsen liked to tell the story about the time he tried to get Shirley ... home,” says John Kasson, author of The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor John R. Countryman, who billed as the child actor Johnny Russell appeared in films with Barbara Stanwyck, Tyrone Power, Shirley Temple and Jimmy Stewart before serving ...