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









