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
Cast Credits

My Six Convicts
Character: Blonde Tilly
MOVIE • 1952

The Family Secret
Character:
MOVIE • 1951

It's a Small World
Character: Susan Musk at Age 16
MOVIE • 1950

An Old-Fashioned Girl
Character: Belle
MOVIE • 1949

Betty Co-Ed
Character: Gloria Campbell
MOVIE • 1946

Nine Girls
Character: "Tennessee" Collingwood
MOVIE • 1944

None Shall Escape
Character: Anna Oremska
MOVIE • 1944

True to Life
Character: Radio Sister (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1943

Top Man
Character: Dancer
MOVIE • 1943

Mister Big
Character: 'Jivin' Jacks and Jills' Member (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1943

Reveille with Beverly
Character: Laura Jean Oliver (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1943

Shadow of a Doubt
Character: Shirley (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1943

Miss Annie Rooney
Character: Audrey Hollis
MOVIE • 1942

Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Character: June
MOVIE • 1940

Young People
Character: Mary Ann
MOVIE • 1940

Virginia City
Character: Crying Young Southern Girl (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1940

The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Ruth Joad
MOVIE • 1940

The Under-Pup
Character: Cecilia Layton
MOVIE • 1939

Child Bride
Character: Jennie
MOVIE • 1938