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Shirley Temple is a retired politician. She lives with her husband in California. She likes cooking and playing with her grandchildren. Also, she sometimes works at Stanford University for the Institute of International Studies. She goes there every month and meets foreign ministers. They discuss world problems.

When she was very young, Shirley was a famous movie star. She started in films when she was only three years old! She could act, she was a very good singer and she also danced well. She liked acting very much, and worked in over 50 films. But, when she was 20, she retired from the cinema. From the age of three Shirley worked very hard for the 20th Century Fox. I acted in 3 or 4 movies every year. Fortunately, I liked acting. And the public loved her and her films. The films earned over $35 million. She says, ‘I didn’t go to school. I studied in the studio and my mother looked after me there.’ So why did she stop acting? When she was 12 she finally started school. She was a good student and she wanted to go to university. She was still a good actor, but her films weren’t so popular, because she wasn’t a little girl any more. She decided to change her career. It was a big change from actor to politician. She says, ‘I was a politician for 35 years, but people only remember my movies!’