Anne Shirley
Born in New York City, New York, USA — Apr 17 1918• Died Jul 04 1993
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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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Lady Bodyguard
A. C. Baker
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Murder, My Sweet
Ann Grayle
Government Girl
May Harness Blake
Rasputin and the Empress
Princess Anastasia
Emma
Isabelle as a Child (uncredited)
Girls' School
Natalie Freeman
Stella Dallas
Laurel "Lollie" Dallas
City Girl
Marie Tustine
So Big!
Young Selina Peake (uncredited)
Bombardier
Burton Hughes
Music in Manhattan
Frankie Foster
Three on a Match
Vivian Revere as a Child
Liliom
Louise
Chasing Yesterday
Jeanne Alexandre
Finishing School
Billie
Career
Sylvia Bartholomew
All That Money Can Buy
Mary Stone
Boy Slaves
Annie
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne
Steamboat Round the Bend
Fleety Belle
Law of the Underworld
Annabelle Porter
A Man to Remember
Jean Johnson
School for Girls
Catherine Fogarty (as Dawn O'Day)
Young America
Mabel Saunders
The Key
Flower peddler
Four Jacks and a Jill
Karanina 'Nina' Novak, the Jill
Bachelor Bait
Miriam Johnson (uncredited)
The Purchase Price
Sarah Tipton (uncredited)
The Spanish Dancer
Don Balthazar Carlos (as Dawn O'Day)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Gun Smoke
Horton's Daughter, Isabelle (uncredited)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Mary Lou
Man from Frisco
Diana Kennedy
Anne of Green Gables
Anne Shirley
Too Many Wives
Betty Jackson
Vigil in the Night
Lucy Lee
The Callahans and the Murphys
Mary Callahan (as Dawn O'Day)
Sorority House
Alice Fisher
Unexpected Uncle
Kathleen Brown
M'Liss
M'Liss Smith
West Point Widow
Nancy Hull
4 Devils
Marion as a girl
Rich Man's Folly
Anne, as a child
The Mayor of 44th Street
Jessey Lee
Riders of the Purple Sage
Fay Larkin (uncredited)
Chatterbox
Jenny Yates
The Powers Girl
Ellen Evans
Saturday's Children
Bobby Halevy
Condemned Women
Millie Anson
The Man Who Fights Alone
Dorothy
Sins of the Fathers
Mary, as a child (as Dawn O'Day)
Mother Carey's Chickens
Nancy Carey
His Wooden Wedding
Meet the Missus
Louise Foster
Movieland Magic
(archive footage)
Make Way for a Lady
June Drew
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Anne Shirley
Mother Knows Best
Sally, as a child
Make Mine Laughs
(archive footage)
The Rustle of Silk
Girl
The Fast Set
Little Margaret Sones
Moonshine Valley
Nancy (as Dawn O'Day)
The Hidden Woman
Girl
Night Life
Daughter of War Profiteer
Alice's Egg Plant
Alice