Child actress Shirley Temple Black, born April 23, 1928, ... Shirley Temple and Sgt. John Agar Jr. cut their wedding cake at the Temple estate on Sept. 19, 1945.

Shirley Temple and John Agar at their wedding in 1945 | Keystone/Getty Images Agar married Temple when she was just 17. ... (She would go by Shirley Temple Black for the rest of her life.) ...

Temple and John Agar walk down a staircase after their wedding in 1945. The couple divorced in 1950. ... Shirley Temple Black, perhaps the biggest child star in history, died Monday.

Shirley Temple Black, who as the most popular child movie star of all time lifted a filmgoing nation’s spirits during the Depression and then grew up to be a diplomat, has died. She was 85.