As 2014 comes to a close, we take a moment at Geeks Of Doom to remember all the fallen entertainment figures in film and television who left us this year. This year, we gave a farewell to a large array of heavyweights, cult heroes, pioneering figures, and sentimental favorites who were among those who have passed on in a physical sense, but leaving the memories, the ones that they made in the past and the ones each of their fans have in regards to them.

Shirley Temple, the legendary child star of the 1930s, has passed away at the age of 85. The actress-turned-ambassador died Monday night surrounded by her family in her home near San Francisco.

Temple was a shining light in the darkness that was the Great Depression, and was one of the top box office performers from 1935 to 1938, even beating out some of the greatest actors ever to live such as Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, and Robert Taylor. Her work in movies like Curly Top and The Littlest Rebel helped to save 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy.