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