Shirley Temple: Academy pays tribute at 2014 Oscars

Child star of 1930s and 40s remembered at Oscars ceremony after her death earlier this year

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The Oscars paid tribute to Shirley Temple, the Oscar-winning child star who died last year – devoting part of its traditional In Memoriam section to the actor.

Temple was given an honorary juvenile Oscar in 1935 at the age of six, after a string of box-office successes including Bright Eyes and Baby Take a Bow helped to distract America in the throes of the Depression. Her screen career flourished during the 1930s, before taking a downturn during the second world war, followed by her official retirement in 1950. Apart from a few subsequent TV appearances, Temple turned to a political career, and served as US ambassador to both Ghana and Czechoslovakia, among other high-profile posts.

Temple, who used the name Temple Black after her 1950 marriage to Charles Alden Black, died in February of natural causes, aged 85.

Read the Guardian's obituary of Shirley Temple Black here.

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