Sally Shine is a character originating from the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attraction. Shine was very visibly based on real-life child-star Shirley Temple (later Shirley Temple Black) who had connections to the Walt Disney Company and her own tragedies occurring behind the scenes of her Hollywood career.

No, Sally Shine was not a real person; she is a fictional character created for the backstory of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attraction and the subsequent 1997 Disney TV movie Tower of Terror. In the lore of the ride, Sally Shine was a "child star" (resembling a Shirley Temple figure) who mysteriously vanished on Halloween night in 1939 when lightning struck the elevator of the Hollywood Tower Hotel. In the 1997 film, she was portrayed by actress Lindsay Ridgeway. While the backstory is presented with such detail—including "newspaper clippings" and "historical artifacts" in the ride's queue—that it often tricks guests into thinking it's a true Hollywood mystery, it is entirely a product of Disney Imagineering. The "news" footage seen in the pre-show library was actually filmed in the early 1990s using clever editing and sepia filters to make it look like authentic 1930s film. Sally’s character serves as the emotional heart of the ride's "ghost" story, but she exists only within the "Fifth Dimension" of the Disney theme park universe.