Florence Shirley
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Florence Shirley was an American
stage and film actress.
Shirley began her stage career in Boston and enjoyed moderate success on Broadway. After the sinking of in April 1912, she participated in a benefit concert for survivors held at the George M. Cohan Theatre. Her last Broadway appearance was in Alice in Arms (originally called Star in the Window) alongside Kirk Douglas
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She appeared in more than 50 films throughout her film career.
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stage and film actress.
Shirley began her stage career in Boston and enjoyed moderate success on Broadway. After the sinking of in April 1912, she participated in a benefit concert for survivors held at the George M. Cohan Theatre. Her last Broadway appearance was in Alice in Arms (originally called Star in the Window) alongside Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...
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She appeared in more than 50 films throughout her film career.
Selected filmography
Shirley's film credits include the following:- Stars and Stripes ForeverStars and Stripes Forever (film)Stars and Stripes Forever is a 1952 American biographical film about late 19th/early 20th Century composer John Philip Sousa, played by Clifton Webb...
(Navy nurse), 1952 (uncredited) - Deadline - U.S.A.Deadline - U.S.A.Deadline – U.S.A. is a 1952 crime film starring Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore and Kim Hunter. A crusading newspaper editor fights a gangster. The newspaper used as background on the film, called The Day is loosely based upon the old New York City newspaper The Sun, which closed in 1950. The...
(Miss Barndollar), 1952 (uncredited) - The Dancing MastersThe Dancing MastersThe Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor...
(Matron), 1943 (uncredited) - Let's Face ItLet's Face ItLet's Face It is an album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It was released on March 11, 1997 by Mercury Records. This album sold very well due to the success of its single "The Impression That I Get", which reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Also faring well were the album's...
(Woman in Sun Shell Cafe), 1943 (uncredited) - A Yank at EtonA Yank at EtonA Yank at Eton is an American comedy/drama film. It was the 1942 sequel to the 1938 A Yank at Oxford. All of it was filmed in the United States and none of it at Eton...
(Mrs. Sampson), 1942 (uncredited) - Her Cardboard LoverHer Cardboard LoverHer Cardboard Lover is a 1942 American comedy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jacques Deval, John Collier, Anthony Veiller, and William H. Wright is based on the English translation of Deval's play Dans sa candeur naïve by Valerie Wyngate and P.G. Wodehouse...
(Casino patron watching chemin de fer game), 1942 (uncredited) - Maisie Gets Her Man (Mrs. Taylor), 1942 (uncredited)
- We Were DancingWe Were DancingWe Were Dancing is a short play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up Tonight at 8:30, a cycle written to be performed in alternating groups of three plays, across three evenings...
(Mrs. Charteris), 1942 - Secret Agent of Japan (Woman Gambler), 1942 (uncredited)
- It Started with EveIt Started with EveIt Started with Eve is a 1941 musical romantic comedy film. A man's dying father wants to meet his new fiancée, but she is unavailable, so he substitutes a hat-check girl. Then the father unexpectedly recovers.Charles Previn and Hans J...
(Bit Role), 1941 (uncredited) - When Ladies MeetWhen Ladies Meet (1941 film)When Ladies Meet is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, and Spring Byington in a story about a novelist in love with her publisher. The screenplay by S.K. Lauren and Anita Loos was based upon a 1932 play by Rachel Crothers. The...
(Janet Hopper), 1941 - Three Sons o' Guns (Mrs. Tyler), 1941
- Nice Girl? (Woman Gossip), 1941 (uncredited)
- Lady with Red HairLady with Red HairLady with Red Hair is a 1940 film released by Warner Bros. and starring Miriam Hopkins as Mrs. Leslie Carter.-Plot:A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in...
(Daisy Dawn), 1940 (uncredited) - Third Finger, Left HandThird Finger, Left HandThird Finger, Left Hand is a 1940 romantic comedy film. A woman pretends to be married to fend off would-be suitors and jealous wives, then regrets her deception when she meets an artist.-Plot:...
(Agnes, dinner guest), 1940 (uncredited) - Pier 13 (Mrs. Forrest), 1940
- New Moon (Guest), 1940 (uncredited)
- Private AffairsPrivate AffairsPrivate Affairs is a 1940 film comedy starring Nancy Kelly, with a supporting cast including Hugh Herbert, Roland Young, and Robert Cummings. The movie was directed by Albert S...
(Mrs. Gilkin), 1940 - Opened by Mistake (Elizabeth Stiles), 1940
- I Take This WomanI Take This Woman (1940 film)I Take This Woman is a 1940 drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr.-Cast:*Spencer Tracy as Dr. Karl Decker*Hedy Lamarr as Georgi Gragore Decker*Verree Teasdale as Madame "Cesca" Marcesca*Kent Taylor as Phil Mayberry...
(Mrs. Leila Bettincourt), 1940 (uncredited) - BalalaikaBalalaika (film)Balalaika is a 1939 American musical romance film based on the 1936 London stage musical of the same name. Produced by Lawrence Weingarten and directed by Reinhold Schunzel, it starred Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey....
(Lily Allison (Paris tourist)), 1939 (uncredited) - NinotchkaNinotchkaNinotchka is a 1939 American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch, based on a screen story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full...
(Marianne, Swana's Phone Friend), 1939 (uncredited) - The WomenThe Women (1939 film)The Women is a 1939 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor. The film is based on Clare Boothe Luce's play of the same name, and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who had to make the film acceptable for the Production Code in order for it to be released.The film...
(Miss Archer), 1939 (uncredited)
Broadway
Shirley's Broadway credits include the following productions:- Alice in Arms (Daisy), 1945
- Take My Tip (Mrs. Dolly Browning), 1932
- Fast Service (Doris Borden), 1931
- Doctor X (Eleanor Stevens), 1931
- Embers (Germaine Bie), 1926
- The Poor Nut (Julia Winters), 1925
- The Locked Door (Muriel Walling), 1924
- My Aunt From Ypsilanti (Peggy), 1923
- Why Men Leave HomeWhy Men Leave HomeWhy Men Leave Home is a 1924 silent film comedy-drama produced by Louis B. Mayer and released through First National Pictures, then known as Associated First National. It is based on a 1922 Broadway play by Avery Hopwood. The film was released in Germany in 1925 by UFA. John M. Stahl directed and...
(Fifi), 1923 - Apple Blossoms (Mrs. Anna Merton), 1920
- Oh, Lady! Lady!!Oh, Lady! Lady!!Oh, Lady! Lady!! is a musical with music by Jerome Kern, a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse and lyrics by Wodehouse. It was written for the Princess Theatre on Broadway, where it played in 1918 and ran for 219 performances. The story concerns an engaged young man, Bill, whose ex-fiancée...
(Fanny Welch), 1918 - Anthony in Wonderland, 1917
- His Majesty Bunker Bean, 1916
- The Wall Street Girl (Pearl Williams), 1912