Name
Shirley Mills
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1926-04-08
Deathday
2010-03-31 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Tacoma, Washington, USA
Biography
Shirley Olivia Mills was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1926 and moved to southern California while still a child. She became the star of an independent movie which achieved great fame titled Child Bride (1938)when she was 12 years old which she describes in detail on her "official" website on a separate page devoted to memories of that movie along with still photos of it. Other pages on the site are devoted to The Grapes Of Wrath (1940) and also Nine Girls (1944), additional movies where she was a movie actress in featured roles. Mills appeared in major Hollywood studio movies through the 1940s and into the 1950s, during which decade she also appeared on major network television programs.
Date of Birth 8 April 1926, Tacoma, Washington
Date of Death 31 March 2010, Arcadia, California (complications of pneumonia)
Known For
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Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their ...
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In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Un...
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Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 m...
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Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. T...
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When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with...
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A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must g...
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Jennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain count...
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A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but ...
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Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal i...
- 1940 The Grapes of Wrath as Ruth Joad
- 1950 It's a Small World as Susan Musk at Age 16
- 1940 Young People as Mary Ann
- 1938 Child Bride as Jennie
- 1951 The Family Secret
- 1939 The Under-Pup as Cecilia Layton
- 1943 Shadow of a Doubt as Shirley (uncredited)
- 1940 Five Little Peppers in Trouble as June
- 1946 Betty Co-Ed as Gloria Campbell
- 1940 Virginia City as Crying Young Southern Girl (uncredited)
- 1943 Reveille with Beverly as Laura Jean Oliver (uncredited)
- 1942 Miss Annie Rooney as Audrey Hollis
- 1944 Nine Girls as "Tennessee" Collingwood
- 1944 None Shall Escape as Anna Oremska
- 1943 True to Life as Radio Sister (uncredited)
- 1943 Top Man as Dancer
- 1943 Mister Big as 'Jivin' Jacks and Jills' Member (uncredited)
- 1949 An Old-Fashioned Girl as Belle
- 1952 My Six Convicts as Blonde Tilly
