Portrait of Shirley Mills

Shirley Mills

Acting

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)

Born: April 28, 1926

Place of Birth: Tacoma, Washington, USA

Filmography

1952
My Six Convicts

as Blonde Tilly

1950
It's a Small World

as Susan Musk at Age 16

1946
Betty Co-Ed

as Gloria Campbell

1944
Nine Girls

as "Tennessee" Collingwood

1944
None Shall Escape

as Anna Oremska

1943
True to Life

as Radio Sister (uncredited)

1943
Top Man

as Dancer

1943
Mister Big

as 'Jivin' Jacks and Jills' Member (uncredited)

1943
Reveille with Beverly

as Laura Jean Oliver (uncredited)

1943
Shadow of a Doubt

as Shirley (uncredited)

1942
Miss Annie Rooney

as Audrey Hollis

1940
Young People

as Mary Ann

1940
Virginia City

as Crying Young Southern Girl (uncredited)

1940
1939
The Under-Pup

as Cecilia Layton

1938
Child Bride

as Jennie