Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1926-03-25
Day of Death
2009-02-06
Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA
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.
Filmography (31)
Classic Comedy Teams
1986
The A-B-Cs of Love
1953
Singin' in the Rain
1952
Royal Wedding
1951
Mickey the Great
1945
Best Foot Forward
1943
Get Hep to Love
1942
The Major and the Minor
1942
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
Crash Donovan
1936
I Live My Life
1935
The Drunkard
1935
Straight from the Heart
1935
'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934
