Anne Shirley — Actor (12)

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Liliom (1930) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Liliom
director: Frank Borzage actor: Charles Farrell / Rose Hobart …
other title: 利力姆
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

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Music in Manhattan (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Music in Manhattan
director: John H. Auer actor: Anne Shirley / Dennis Day …
other title: 曼哈顿之乐 / Adorable mentirosa …
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.

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Lady Bodyguard (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Lady Bodyguard
director: William Clemens actor: Anne Shirley / Eddie Albert …
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.

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Make Way for a Lady (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Make Way for a Lady
director: David Burton actor: Herbert Marshall / Anne Shirley …
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.

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Anne of Windy Poplars (1940) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Anne of Windy Poplars
director: Jack Hively actor: Anne Shirley / James Ellison …
other title: Ana, la de Álamos Ventosos / Ana en el jardín de los álamos …
Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables' sequels.