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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.551 |
Birthday | 1926-04-28 |
Place of Birth | Tacoma, Washington, USA |
Also Known As |
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
7.853/944
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncl...
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The Grapes of Wrath
1950
It's a Small World
5.3/6
Harry Musk is one in a million. That means that he's the one out of a million children who is perfectly proportioned but will never grow larger than a...
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It's a Small World
1940
Young People
4.6/8
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the f...
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Young People
1938
Child Bride
4.609/32
Jennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher, Miss Carol, though a mountain girl he...
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Child Bride
1946
Betty Co-Ed
0/0
The plot gets under way when Joanne, a carnival hootchy-kootchy dancer, is accepted into a snobbish college sorority when it is assumed that she hails...
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Betty Co-Ed
1939
The Under-Pup
6/2
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed beca...
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The Under-Pup
1943
Shadow of a Doubt
7.5/994
Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderf...
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Shadow of a Doubt
1940
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
6.7/3
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
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Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
Virginia City
6.081/31
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confedera...
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Virginia City
1943
Reveille with Beverly
7/5
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a n...
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Reveille with Beverly
1942
Miss Annie Rooney
6.4/7
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her fam...
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Miss Annie Rooney
1944
Nine Girls
5.3/3
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on...
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Nine Girls
1944
None Shall Escape
6.2/24
Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.
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None Shall Escape
1943
True to Life
6/1
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins t...
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True to Life
1943
Top Man
0/0
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of lo...
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Top Man
1943
Mister Big
2.2/2
Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
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Mister Big
1949
An Old-Fashioned Girl
0/0
A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find their fortunes turning.
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
1952
My Six Convicts
6.3/9
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have n...
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My Six Convicts
1951
The Family Secret
5.7/11
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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