Shirley Temple (1928-2014)

[rasputin]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/11/showbi...html?hpt=hp_t2
What a unique life.

[Indoor66]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/11/showbi...html?hpt=hp_t2
What a unique life.

I would add productive to unique.

[Atlanta Duke]

Very impressive what she accomplished after she was the biggest box office star in America from 1935-1939 as a pre-teen and then left Hollywood behind

Nice to see she apparently was not scarred for life after she got her start at age 3&1/2 in pre-Hays Code Hollywood, where I doubt this could pass as mainstream entertainment today

Shirley was spotted by an agent from Educational Pictures and chosen to appear in “Baby Burlesks,” a series of sexually suggestive one-reel shorts in which children played all the roles. The 4- and 5-year-old children wore fancy adult costumes that ended at the waist. Below the waist, they wore diapers with oversize safety pins. In these heavy-handed parodies of well-known films like “The Front Page” (“The Runt Page”) and “What Price Glory” (“War Babies”), Shirley imitated Marlene Dietrich, Mae West and — wearing an off-the-shoulder blouse and satin garter as a hard-boiled French bar girl in “War Babies” — Dolores Del Rio.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/ar...-at-85.html?hp

Link to CBS News video obit, which includes some Baby Burlesks film clips - not exactly The Good Ship Lollipop - yikes

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hollywoo...le-dead-at-85/