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