What happened to Shirley Temple after her childhood movies?
Temple retired from film acting in her early twenties after appearing in such successful films such as Since You Went Away, Fort Apache, and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. Later appearances on television did not prove as popular as her films. Temple was married first to actor John Agar; she was then 16 and though they had one daughter, the marriage soon ended in divorce. She married the California businessman Charles Alden Black in 1950; they had two children. She may have looked favorably on his admission while dating that he had never seen any of her films. She subsequently became involved in Republican Party politics under her married name, unsuccessfully entering a Congressional race in 1967. She went on to hold several diplomatic posts, representing the United States in the United Nations in 1969-70 and as America’s delegate to many international conferences and summits. She was also appointed American ambassador to Ghana (1974-1976) and Czechoslovakia (1989). In 1976, she beca
