Hoffman, Temple, who's next?

Shouldn't it be Ambassdor Black as the proper condolence? Shirley Temple Black played a role as a moderate Republican, (remember those?) who ran for Congress, lost, went on to work in the Foreign Service, and was actually the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution.

Or the de facto headline should be the death of Heidi, who finally sailed on the Goodship Lollipop.

I wonder if her films will be on Netflix now? RIP

Scratch the reference that she worked in the Foreign Service. She got her roles as ambassador the old fashioned way, she fundraised her way to her job via, Nixon, Ford, and HW Bush.

She lost to a rarer breed of Republican in the 1960s and extinct by the 1970s, (with the exception of Lowell Weicker) a Liberal Republican, Pete McCloskey.

Our long national nightmare is over!

King Kong ate her years ago.

The first choice by MGM to play Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. But fortunately, she couldn't get out of her contract at the time.

She was easily the most phenomenally talented child entertainer of the first half of the 20th century. You have to go to a young Michael Jackson to find an equal talent for singing and dancing. One difference - Shirley Temple could act. She started in movies when she was four freakin' years old. Here she is at six: http://youtu.be/AjCFYpWDmfM

85 is a good run. RIP, America's Sweetheart.

@9: That was great!

She was 25 years older than me, so I didn't catch all the hoopla at the time, of course, but nobody gets to grow up without being exposed to Shirley Temple at any age. She was the biggest star in Hollywood in her prime, and that's saying a lot. Those were the golden days of screen. RIP, Shirley.