Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 25, 1926
Died
Feb 06, 2009
Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA
Credits
31 titles
Shirley Jean Rickert
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.
Known For
Filmography
Classic Comedy Teams
Shirley (segment "Our Gang") (archive footage)
The A-B-Cs of Love
Gilda
Singin' in the Rain
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Royal Wedding
Dancer in Haiti Number (uncredited)
Mickey the Great
Self
Best Foot Forward
Dancer
Get Hep to Love
Student
The Major and the Minor
College Girl (uncredited)
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Kiki
Crash Donovan
Young Girl (uncredited)
I Live My Life
Child at Christmas Party (Uncredited)
The Drunkard
Julia
Straight from the Heart
Austin's Daughter
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Nina
The Scarlet Letter
Humility Crakstone
Mickey's Medicine Man
Tomboy Taylor
Mickey's Rescue
Tomboy Taylor
Mickey's Minstrels
Tomboy Taylor
Mickey's Covered Wagon
Tomboy Taylor
Mickey's Tent Show
Tomboy Taylor
Mickey's Touchdown
'Tomboy' Taylor
Once in a Lifetime
Flower Girl (uncredited)
Love Pains
Girl at Ice Cream Counter (uncredited)
Fly My Kite
Shirley
Bargain Day
Shirley
The Stolen Jools
Shirley Jean
Little Daddy
Shirley
Love Business
Shirley
Helping Grandma
Shirley
Follow Thru
Cherub (uncredited)
How's My Baby?
The Baby