Anne Shirley
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.231 |
| Birthday | 1918-04-17 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Dawn O'Day, Dawn Evelyeen Paris, |
1944
Murder, My Sweet
7.233/225
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
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Murder, My Sweet
1930
City Girl
7.358/95
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...
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City Girl
1941
All That Money Can Buy
7.048/83
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 fruit...
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All That Money Can Buy
1932
Three on a Match
6.2/67
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery...
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Three on a Match
1937
Stella Dallas
6.9/82
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
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Stella Dallas
1943
Bombardier
5.4/18
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precisio...
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Bombardier
1934
Anne of Green Gables
5.705/22
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their fa...
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Anne of Green Gables
1922
Moonshine Valley
0/0
Ned Connors, a prospector, has a happy marriage with his wife, living in the hills, until fate brings a sick visitor to their shack. The guest, Dr. Ma...
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Moonshine Valley
1943
Government Girl
5.2/8
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
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Government Girl
1935
Steamboat Round the Bend
7.5/15
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 hange...
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Steamboat Round the Bend
1934
The Key
4.9/7
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
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The Key
1923
The Rustle of Silk
0/0
Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together -- he is England's Colonial Secretary and m...
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The Rustle of Silk
1930
Liliom
6.6/15
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 tri...
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Liliom
1940
Anne of Windy Poplars
5.8/5
Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'An...
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Anne of Windy Poplars
1936
Make Way for a Lady
5/5
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, G...
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Make Way for a Lady
1940
Saturday's Children
6.4/8
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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Saturday's Children
1940
Vigil in the Night
6/9
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
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Vigil in the Night
1928
4 Devils
7/3
The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Film historian and collector...
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4 Devils
1938
Law of the Underworld
5.5/4
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
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Law of the Underworld
1944
Man from Frisco
6/1
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated...
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Man from Frisco
1938
A Man to Remember
6.5/6
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
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A Man to Remember
1941
Unexpected Uncle
6.5/5
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
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Unexpected Uncle
1938
Condemned Women
6.3/3
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
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Condemned Women
1939
Sorority House
6.8/5
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
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Sorority House
1932
Young America
5/5
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arth...
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Young America
1936
Chatterbox
6/2
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapprov...
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Chatterbox
1944
Music in Manhattan
4/1
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest...
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Music in Manhattan
1938
Girls' School
6/5
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fl...
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Girls' School
1942
The Mayor of 44th Street
4/2
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately,...
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The Mayor of 44th Street
1938
Mother Carey's Chickens
5.2/5
A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
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Mother Carey's Chickens
1937
Too Many Wives
6.7/3
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
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Too Many Wives
1942
Four Jacks and a Jill
6/3
Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Arega...
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Four Jacks and a Jill
1935
Chasing Yesterday
3.5/2
An elderly bachelor, feeling nostalgic for his youth, seeks out his late sweetheart's teenage daughter, now an orphan forced to attend a strict boardi...
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Chasing Yesterday
1924
The Fast Set
0/0
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The Fast Set
1922
The Hidden Woman
0/0
Ann Wesley, a wealthy society girl is loved by Bart Andrews. Andrews reproaches Ann for her frivolity and believes she has a better self hidden within...
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The Hidden Woman
1937
Meet the Missus
4/1
A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.
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Meet the Missus
1939
Boy Slaves
6.8/4
Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".
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Boy Slaves
1936
M'Liss
5/1
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteache...
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M'Liss
1939
Career
0/0
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart wh...
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Career
1943
The Powers Girl
6.5/4
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photog...
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The Powers Girl
1933
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
6.1/7
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he...
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1932
The Purchase Price
6.6/24
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationshi...
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The Purchase Price
1925
Riders of the Purple Sage
5.7/9
A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
1934
Finishing School
6.2/16
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the dir...
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Finishing School
1932
Emma
6.5/12
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition....
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Emma
1941
West Point Widow
6/1
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so...
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West Point Widow
1928
Mother Knows Best
0/0
A stage-actress mother and her daughter in a battle-of-wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and...
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Mother Knows Best
1923
The Spanish Dancer
4/2
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Mari...
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The Spanish Dancer
1924
The Man Who Fights Alone
0/0
John Marble, a construction engineer is stricken by paralysis and begins to envision the growth of love between his wife Marion and his best friend, B...
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The Man Who Fights Alone
1949
Make Mine Laughs
5/5
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.
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Make Mine Laughs
1931
Gun Smoke
5.5/2
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Ida...
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Gun Smoke
1932
So Big!
5.846/13
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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So Big!
1932
Rasputin and the Empress
5.3/11
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
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Rasputin and the Empress
1935
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
6/1
Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.
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A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
1943
Lady Bodyguard
4/2
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture a...
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Lady Bodyguard
1931
Rich Man's Folly
4.5/4
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly...
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Rich Man's Folly
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
8/3
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1934
Bachelor Bait
5.7/3
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
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Bachelor Bait
1925
His Wooden Wedding
6.4/4
A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating that the bride has a wooden leg.
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His Wooden Wedding
1946
Movieland Magic
0/0
Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB production number 2003) this short most likely hold...
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Movieland Magic
1925
Alice's Egg Plant
4.7/16
Julius, the boss of Alice's chicken farm, has to find a way to deliver 5000 eggs to Sinkem and Soakem when the hens go on strike.
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Alice's Egg Plant
1941
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
6/1
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's co...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1934
School for Girls
6/1
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However,...
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School for Girls
1928
Sins of the Fathers
6/1
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs...
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Sins of the Fathers
1927
The Callahans and the Murphys
0/0
The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.
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