Anne Shirley (born Dawn Evelyn Paris; April 17, 1918 â€" July 4, 1993)
was an American actress.Beginning her career as a child actress under
the stage name Dawn O'Day, she adopted the stage name of Anne Shirley,
after playing the title character in the film adaptation of Anne of
Green Gables in 1934, after which she achieved a successful career in
supporting roles. Among her films is Stella Dallas (1937), for which
she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress.Although Shirley left the acting profession in 1944, at the
age of 26, she remained in Los Angeles, where she died at the age of
75.Born in New York City as a baby she began modeling, and made her
film debut with a featured role in 1922's Moonshine Valley. Shirley
began acting at the age of five as the live action "Alice" in Walt
Disney's pre-Mickey Mouse silent animated series "Alice in
Cartoonland". She had a highly successful child star career in
Pre-Code movies, appearing in films such as Liliom, Tom Mix's Riders
of the Purple Sage, So Big, Three on a Match and Rasputin and the
Empress.
was an American actress.Beginning her career as a child actress under
the stage name Dawn O'Day, she adopted the stage name of Anne Shirley,
after playing the title character in the film adaptation of Anne of
Green Gables in 1934, after which she achieved a successful career in
supporting roles. Among her films is Stella Dallas (1937), for which
she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress.Although Shirley left the acting profession in 1944, at the
age of 26, she remained in Los Angeles, where she died at the age of
75.Born in New York City as a baby she began modeling, and made her
film debut with a featured role in 1922's Moonshine Valley. Shirley
began acting at the age of five as the live action "Alice" in Walt
Disney's pre-Mickey Mouse silent animated series "Alice in
Cartoonland". She had a highly successful child star career in
Pre-Code movies, appearing in films such as Liliom, Tom Mix's Riders
of the Purple Sage, So Big, Three on a Match and Rasputin and the
Empress.
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