According to
Shirley Temple, her co-star in
The Blue Bird (1940), in her autobiography
"Child Star," she was killed after a lighted birthday candle at home
ignited her dress and burned her to death. Her five older brothers
acted as pallbearers while a graveside quartet sung her favorite song
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from
The Wizard of Oz (1939) when she was interred at
Forest Lawn Cemetery. Her burial shroud was the unborn child toga from
her role in
The Blue Bird (1940).