Taking up one block in the 1937 Beverly Green subdivision is a street named after the biggest movie star of the 1930s: Shirley Jane Temple (1928-2014). Shirley’s father (and manager) George Francis Temple (1888-1980) owned twenty acres of this subdivision – Hollywood director King Vidor owned forty – and honored his little princess with this byway, arguably paid for by her own salary. Although the Temples never lived here, they may as well have: in 1937, Shirley was working six days a week on the Fox lot half a mile away. Yet despite having saved the studio from financial ruin, the actress struggled with her career after puberty struck. Upon marrying Charles Alden Black in 1950, she retired from film acting with over thirty features under her belt. She was 22 years old. The couple moved up north to pricey Atherton, CA and Shirley Temple Black spent the rest of her life as an ambassador, breast cancer awareness spokeswoman, and GOP fixture.
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