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