Shirley Temple
Okay, so she may not have been a grown woman, but Shirley Temple proved stardom can come at any age. She started her acting career at age three and soon her strong talent in singing, acting and dancing caught big time attention. She was only six-years-old when she catapulted into the spotlight on Bright Eyes. By age ten, she had become the number one box office draw four years in a row thanks to her roles in Stand Up and Cheer, Little Miss Marker and Curly Top. In fact, her popularity is what helped 20th Century Fox move forward without being swallowed into bankruptcy, actually making it into the 21st Century. Temple received her very own special kid sized Oscar and even then President Franklin D. Roosevelt boasted she was the “nation’s greatest weapon against the Depression”. All that for a pint-sized, curly haired, multi-talented kid that lived on with global icon praise until her death in 2014 at the age of 85.
