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