Shirley Mills
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
Credits
- 1952 · My Six Convicts as Blonde Tilly
- 1951 · The Family Secret as
- 1950 · It's a Small World as Susan Musk at Age 16
- 1949 · An Old-Fashioned Girl as Belle
- 1946 · Betty Co-Ed as Gloria Campbell
- 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)
- 1943 · Reveille with Beverly as Laura Jean Oliver (uncredited)
- 1943 · Shadow of a Doubt as Shirley (uncredited)
- 1942 · Miss Annie Rooney as Audrey Hollis
- 1940 · Five Little Peppers in Trouble as June
- 1940 · Young People as Mary Ann
- 1940 · Virginia City as Crying Young Southern Girl (uncredited)
- 1940 · The Grapes of Wrath as Ruth Joad
- 1939 · The Under-Pup as Cecilia Layton
- 1938 · Child Bride as Jennie