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