
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)
Also Known As
Movie Appearances

The Grapes of Wrath
as Ruth Joad
1940

It's a Small World
as Susan Musk at Age 16
1950

Young People
as Mary Ann
1940

Child Bride
as Jennie
1938

The Family Secret
1951

The Under-Pup
as Cecilia Layton
1939

Shadow of a Doubt
as Shirley (uncredited)
1943

Five Little Peppers in Trouble
as June
1940

Betty Co-Ed
as Gloria Campbell
1946

Virginia City
as Crying Young Southern Girl (uncredited)
1940

Reveille with Beverly
as Laura Jean Oliver (uncredited)
1943

Miss Annie Rooney
as Audrey Hollis
1942

Nine Girls
as "Tennessee" Collingwood
1944

None Shall Escape
as Anna Oremska
1944

True to Life
as Radio Sister (uncredited)
1943

Top Man
as Dancer
1943

Mister Big
as 'Jivin' Jacks and Jills' Member (uncredited)
1943

An Old-Fashioned Girl
as Belle
1949

My Six Convicts
as Blonde Tilly
1952