Five things you didn't know about Shirley Temple

It wasn't all curls and lollipops: actress was flashed by a producer and nearly murdered on stage

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Former child actress Shirley Temple has died at the age of 85. The Wee Willie Winkie star, famous for her golden corkscrew curls, died of natural causes at her home in California. Temple was the number one box-office draw in America and Britain between 1935 and 1938 and is often remembered for singing On the Good Ship Lollipop in the 1934 movie Bright Eyes. But here are five facts about the actress that are not so well known:

She was nearly Dorothy Gale

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