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