Shirley Jean Rickert
Born: 1926-03-25 in Seattle, Washington, USA
Died: 2009-02-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
Shirley Jean Rickert (March 25, 1926 – February 6, 2009) was an American child actress who was briefly the "blonde girl" for the Our Gang series in 1931, during the Hal Roach talkie period. At 18 months of age, Rickert won a local baby beauty contest, which emboldened her mother to move the family to Hollywood. She made her screen debut at the age of four in the short How's My Baby (1930), soon followed by her Our Gang debut, Helping Grandma in 1931. Rickert's most notable appearances were in the films Love Business and Bargain Day. After Rickert left the Our Gang series, she had a brief movie career, including starring roles as Tomboy Teri Taylor alongside Mickey Rooney in eight Mickey McGuire comedies, followed by a string of jobs including driving trucks for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. She later worked in burlesque as an exotic dancer, billed as Gilda and Her Crowning Glory (after her long blonde hair), retiring from burlesque in 1959. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley Jean Rickert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1986
- Classic Comedy Teams as Shirley (segment "Our Gang") (archive footage)
1953
- The A-B-Cs of Love as Gilda
1952
- Singin' in the Rain as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1951
- Royal Wedding as Dancer in Haiti Number (uncredited)
1945
- Mickey the Great as Self
1943
- Best Foot Forward as Dancer
1942
- The Major and the Minor as College Girl (uncredited)
- Get Hep to Love as Student
1940
- Five Little Peppers in Trouble as Kiki
1936
- Crash Donovan as Young Girl (uncredited)
1935
- I Live My Life as Child at Christmas Party (Uncredited)
- Straight from the Heart as Austin's Daughter
- The Drunkard as Julia
1934
- 'Neath the Arizona Skies as Nina
- The Scarlet Letter as Humility Crakstone
- Mickey's Minstrels as Tomboy Taylor
- Mickey's Medicine Man as Tomboy Taylor
- Mickey's Rescue as Tomboy Taylor
1933
- Mickey's Touchdown as 'Tomboy' Taylor
- Mickey's Tent Show as Tomboy Taylor
- Mickey's Covered Wagon as Tomboy Taylor
1932
- Once in a Lifetime as Flower Girl (uncredited)
- Love Pains as Girl at Ice Cream Counter (uncredited)
1931
- Bargain Day as Shirley
- The Stolen Jools as Shirley Jean
- Fly My Kite as Shirley
- Helping Grandma as Shirley
- Love Business as Shirley
- Little Daddy as Shirley
1930
- Follow Thru as Cherub (uncredited)
- How's My Baby? as The Baby