Anne Shirley
Acting
Biography
Anne Shirley (born Dawn Evelyeen Paris) was an American child, teen, and young adult screen actress. She retired at age 26. Initially appearing in films under the name Dawn O'Day, she changed her name to Anne Shirley (the name of the title character she portrayed) upon the success of the 1934 film Anne of Green Gables.
Born: April 17, 1918
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
Steamboat Round the Bend
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
City Girl
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
Murder, My Sweet
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
All That Money Can Buy
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
4 Devils
Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus. Lost film.
Stella Dallas
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
Liliom
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Sorority House
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
Boy Slaves
Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Ann Grayle
as Frankie Foster
as Diana Kennedy
as May Harness Blake
as Burton Hughes
as Ellen Evans
as A. C. Baker
as Jessey Lee
as Karanina 'Nina' Novak, the Jill
as Kathleen Brown
as Mary Stone
as Nancy Hull
as Anne
as Bobby Halevy
as Lucy Lee
as Sylvia Bartholomew
as Alice Fisher
as Annie
as Jean Johnson
as Natalie Freeman
as Nancy Carey
as Annabelle Porter
as Millie Anson
as Laurel "Lollie" Dallas
as Louise Foster
as Betty Jackson
as June Drew
as M'Liss Smith
as Jenny Yates
as Fleety Belle
as Anne Shirley
as Jeanne Alexandre
as Anne Shirley
as Miriam Johnson (uncredited)
as Flower peddler
as Billie
as Catherine Fogarty (as Dawn O'Day)
as Mary Lou
as Princess Anastasia
as Vivian Revere as a Child
as Sarah Tipton (uncredited)
as Young Selina Peake (uncredited)
as Mabel Saunders
as Isabelle as a Child (uncredited)
as Anne, as a child
as Horton's Daughter, Isabelle (uncredited)
as Louise
as Marie Tustine
as Mary, as a child (as Dawn O'Day)
as Marion as a girl
as Daughter of War Profiteer
as Mary Callahan (as Dawn O'Day)
as Alice
as Fay Larkin (uncredited)
as Little Margaret Sones
as Dorothy
as Don Balthazar Carlos (as Dawn O'Day)
as Girl
as Nancy (as Dawn O'Day)
as Girl