Shirley Jean Rickert

Shirley Jean Rickert

1926-03-25 - 2009-02-06
Seattle, Washington, USA

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.

Acting

Five Little Peppers ...
6.7
The Stolen Jools
5.6
Crash Donovan
0
Singin' in the Rain
8.14
'Neath the Arizona ...
4.5
Get Hep to Love
4
The Major and the ...
7.046
Mickey's Touchdown
0
Straight from the ...
0
Helping Grandma
6.714
Bargain Day
6
Little Daddy
6.9
Love Pains
0
Royal Wedding
6.4
The Scarlet Letter
4.583
The Drunkard
0
I Live My Life
6.375
Follow Thru
7.4
Fly My Kite
6.714
Once in a Lifetime
7
1