Shirley Mills
Known for: Acting
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)
Filmography
Film
The Grapes of Wrath
Ruth Joad
1940
Film
Shadow of a Doubt
Shirley (uncredited)
1943
Film
Virginia City
Crying Young Southern Girl (uncredited)
1940
Film
Young People
Mary Ann
1940
Film
Nine Girls
"Tennessee" Collingwood
1944
Film
True to Life
Radio Sister (uncredited)
1943
Film
The Family Secret
1951
Film
None Shall Escape
Anna Oremska
1944
Film
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Belle
1949
Film
My Six Convicts
Blonde Tilly
1952
Film
Top Man
Dancer
1943
Film
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
June
1940
Film
Child Bride
Jennie
1938
Film
Mister Big
'Jivin' Jacks and Jills' Member (uncredited)
1943
Film
Miss Annie Rooney
Audrey Hollis
1942
Film
Reveille with Beverly
Laura Jean Oliver (uncredited)
1943
Film
It's a Small World
Susan Musk at Age 16
1950
Film
The Under-Pup
Cecilia Layton
1939
Film
Betty Co-Ed
Gloria Campbell
1946