Anne Shirley
Acting
Born: April 17, 1918 · New York City, New York, USA
Died: July 4, 1993 (aged 75)
Highest Rated
Biography
Anne Shirley (born Dawn Evelyeen Paris; April 17, 1918 – July 4, 1993) 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.
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Movies (64)
Murder, My Sweet
Ann Grayle
All That Money Can Buy
Mary Stone
Three on a Match
Vivian Revere as a Child
City Girl
Marie Tustine
Rasputin and the Empress
Princess Anastasia
A Man to Remember
Jean Johnson
Four Jacks and a Jill
Karanina 'Nina' Novak, the Jill
Law of the Underworld
Annabelle Porter
Government Girl
May Harness Blake
Bachelor Bait
Miriam Johnson (uncredited)
Vigil in the Night
Lucy Lee
Bombardier
Burton Hughes
Boy Slaves
Annie
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Mary Lou
Anne of Green Gables
Anne Shirley
The Mayor of 44th Street
Jessey Lee
Steamboat Round the Bend
Fleety Belle
Rich Man's Folly
Anne, as a child
Girls' School
Natalie Freeman
Stella Dallas
Laurel "Lollie" Dallas
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
Finishing School
Billie
Sorority House
Alice Fisher
School for Girls
Catherine Fogarty (as Dawn O'Day)
Music in Manhattan
Frankie Foster
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Anne Shirley
The Purchase Price
Sarah Tipton (uncredited)
Mother Carey's Chickens
Nancy Carey
Sins of the Fathers
Mary, as a child (as Dawn O'Day)
So Big!
Young Selina Peake (uncredited)
The Hidden Woman
Girl
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne
Riders of the Purple Sage
Fay Larkin (uncredited)
The Powers Girl
Ellen Evans
The Man Who Fights Alone
Dorothy
Make Way for a Lady
June Drew
The Callahans and the Murphys
Mary Callahan (as Dawn O'Day)
Chatterbox
Jenny Yates
Saturday's Children
Bobby Halevy
Emma
Isabelle as a Child (uncredited)
The Rustle of Silk
Girl
West Point Widow
Nancy Hull
Young America
Mabel Saunders
Make Mine Laughs
(archive footage)
His Wooden Wedding
1925
4 Devils
Marion as a girl
Alice's Egg Plant
Alice
Too Many Wives
Betty Jackson
Career
Sylvia Bartholomew
Lady Bodyguard
A. C. Baker
Liliom
Louise
Man from Frisco
Diana Kennedy
The Key
Flower peddler
Unexpected Uncle
Kathleen Brown
Movieland Magic
(archive footage)
M'Liss
M'Liss Smith
Chasing Yesterday
Jeanne Alexandre
The Spanish Dancer
Don Balthazar Carlos (as Dawn O'Day)
Condemned Women
Millie Anson
Gun Smoke
Horton's Daughter, Isabelle (uncredited)
Moonshine Valley
Nancy (as Dawn O'Day)
Night Life
Daughter of War Profiteer
Meet the Missus
Louise Foster
The Fast Set
Little Margaret Sones
