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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1926-04-28 (98 years old)

Place of Birth

Tacoma, Washington, USA

Shirley Mills

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

Acting

1952

My Six Convicts as Blonde Tilly

1951

1950

It's a Small World as Susan Musk at Age 16

1949

1946

Betty Co-Ed as Gloria Campbell

1944

Nine Girls as "Tennessee" Collingwood
None Shall Escape as Anna Oremska

1943

Shadow of a Doubt as Shirley (uncredited)
Reveille with Beverly as Laura Jean Oliver (uncredited)
True to Life as Radio Sister (uncredited)
Top Man as Dancer
Mister Big as 'Jivin' Jacks and Jills' Member (uncredited)

1942

Miss Annie Rooney as Audrey Hollis

1940

The Grapes of Wrath as Ruth Joad
Young People as Mary Ann
Virginia City as Crying Young Southern Girl (uncredited)

1939

The Under-Pup as Cecilia Layton

1938

Child Bride as Jennie