Shirley Temple was born at Santa Monica Hospital on Monday April 23, 1928. She weighed six pounds and eight ounces. [Photo from 1941, LAPL Collection]

George and Gertrude Temple purchased the Spanish-style bungalow in 1927 after George had been promoted to assistant manager of his bank branch at Washington Blvd and Vermont Ave. The home was large enough to accommodate the growing family, which at that time included George, Gertrude and two sons, Jack and Sonny. The home had a two-car garage, a red-tiled roof, and a massive fireplace in the living room. Shirley was born a year later in 1928. "Shirley spent the first years of her life in a crib placed in a corner of the living room a short distance from the record player... At eight months, Shirley was standing in her crib swaying to the rhythm of the songs." [Source: Shirley Temple, An American Princess]

Hoping to launch her daughter into pictures, in 1931 Gertrude Temple took young Shirley (age 3) to dance classes at the famed Ethel Meglin Studios. The Meglin Studios had several locations around the city, including at the Mack Sennett Studios in Studio City. Meglin put on a popular "kiddie revue" and taught dance classes that would attract talent scouts. Judy Garland, age 9, was also a student of Meglin at that time. It was here Shirley would begin her film career with shorts for Educational Films in "Baby Burlesks".

In late 1934, the family moved to a new house following Shirley's continued success and growing fame in the movies. From 'Shirley Temple, American Princess': "The house in Santa Monica was too cramped for the Temples' new life. They moved to a larger, but fundamentally middle-class, house, a few blocks away." In her autobiography, Shirley says of the home: "Inside and out, it was festooned with a jungle of hanging plants in wrought iron pots." [Image via Google StreetView]

Many of Shirley's early films were filmed on the 20th Century Fox studio lot located off Pico in Century City. Because she was on set so much, 6 to 7 hours a day, Monday through Saturday, a special bungalow was built for her. "Painted white and trimmed in a blue scalloped and polka-dot design, the four bedroom bungalow had on its grounds a garden, a picket fence, a tree with a swing, and a rabbit pen." The bungalow also included a baby grand piano and a mural of Shirley in a fairy-tale princess costume. [image of Shirley at her bungalow from miss-shirley-temple.tumblr.com/]

In 1934, six year old Shirley Temple received a miniature Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards ceremony held in the Blossom Room. She had appeared in six movies that year.

By 1936, the family needed a larger home - plus something with more security to keep the fans at bay. "The house was of French-Normandy design, its front hidden from the road and its rear looking down across a slope of hills to the Will Rogers Memorial Polo Grounds." The home also had a stable for Shirley's ponies Spunky and Little Carnation. The home featured a large playhouse in the back yard, that would eventually be converted into a second home, later occupied by Shirley and her first husband John Agar. [Source: Shirley Temple, American Princess.]

In 1940, following a number of dismal returns on her films, an aging Shirley Temple (age 12) left 20th Century Fox for better opportunities but was unable to secure a new contract with another studio. Her parents enrolled her at Westlake School for Girls (located in Holmby Hills) that Fall, where other famous children were enrolled, including June Lockhart and Phoebe Hearst. Shirley would go on to sing in the glee club and write a gossip column in the school newspaper. [Photo of Shirley at her graduation from Westlake via miss-shirley-temple.tumblr.com]

In 1943, Shirley met her future husband John Agar at the home of film-star and neighbor ZaSu Pitts. "On a Sunday afternoon in the summer of 1943, ZaSu's daughter Ann Gallery held a small swimming party at her home." John and Shirley were both there. At the time John was 23 and Shirley was 15, but she was smitten, and would manage to be at ZaSu's house when she was told that John was to be there.

The playhouse in the back of the Temple's family home that had originally housed Shirley's large doll collection, was converted into a separate residence. John Agar and Shirley moved into the residence shortly after their wedding in 1945 and lived in the home with their daughter Linda Susan, until their divorce four years later. The photo shows the family in the living room of the home.

Dealing with her crumbling marriage to John Agar, Shirley would sometimes hang out in the after-hours clubs on the Sunset Strip. From her autobiography, Shirley describes her one time run-in with gangster Mickey Cohen at Dave's Blue Room. "We met at mid-stairway, his chunky body pressed sideways facing me. As we stood fitted together like sardines, he said he had noticed me with his friend [Barney]Ruditsky, and how much he liked my films. In such close proximity to a genuine underworld insider, my imagination raced ahead but he was gone." Ruditsky later invited Shirley to come along, in an unmarked car, to watch the LAPD and County sheriffs perform a marijuana raid at a hideaway of actor Robert Mitchum, but she declined.

After a year long romance, Shirley married Charles Black. The two were married in December 1950 in Del Monte, CA. The current site of the Neutra-designed Kronish house, this address is also given as a former home of Shirley Temple's. One source lists it as being occupied by Shirley from 1950-52. This time frame would coincide with her marriage to Charles Black and the family's move to Washington DC, before returning to LA in 1953 and settling at 2200 Bowmont.

Although, there is dispute as to the origin of Shirley Temple's namesake drink, Temple herself said the drink was first concocted at the Brown Derby in Hollywood.

The star sits on the east side of Vine, between Sunset and Selma. At the time of Shirley's death on February 10, the star was out for repairs. At last check, it is still out of commission.