Shirley Jean Rickert

Shirley Jean Rickert

Nascimento : 1926-03-25, Seattle, Washington, USA

Morte : 2009-02-06

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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, in which her spit-curls were the centerpiece of her precocious performance. 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. People are so amazed to hear I went from movies into burlesque. Well, I'll tell you, I prefer burlesque because it's not so immoral as the movie business. — Shirley Jean Rickert, 1955 news article In the mid-1970s, she became a traveling saleswoman for industrial hardware, surprising potential clients with her starring roles in Our Gang. Later, she performed in local theater productions, helped to maintain a Web fansite, and made occasional public appearances. She also sold her crafts at a local shop with her daughter's family.

Perfil

Shirley Jean Rickert

Filmes

The A-B-Cs of Love
Gilda
Filmed version of a burlesque performance, featuring strippers, songs and comedy routines.
Cantando na Chuva
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Em 1927, Hollywood, está um verdadeiro rebuliço com a transição do cinema mudo para o falado. Don Lockwood e Lina Lamont, o casal mais querido do cinema mudo, se prepara para rodar um musical. Mas, infelizmente, Lina não só não sabe cantar como tem uma voz horrível. A estreante, Kathy Selden, é chamada a emprestar sua voz à estrela. As gravações são uma confusão, mas tudo piora quando Don se apaixona pela doce Kathy. Ao lado de seu inseparável amigo, o compositor Cosmo Brown, ele tenta mostrar ao mundo o talento de Kathy.
Núpcias Reais
Dancer in Haiti Number (uncredited)
Tom (Fred Astaire) e Ellen Bowen (Jane Powell) são dois irmãos que apresentam um ato musical e de dança na cidade de NY. Quando sua temporada de shows se encerra, seu agente marca apresentações em Londres no período do Casamento Real. Eles embarcam em um cruzeiro para chegar à Inglaterra, onde a aparência de inocente de Ellen ( que na verdade é a versão feminina de Don Juan )encanta o Lorde John Brindale (Peter Lawford) e os dois acabam se envolvendo. O affair de Ellen e John faz com que ela perca ensaios com o irmão Tom, que percebe que a garota não leva a vida de dançarina tão a sério. Chegando a Londres, além de participar de diversas audições, Tom acaba conhecendo Ann (Sarah Churchill), por quem acaba se apaixonando.Agora os irmãos encontram-se completamente indecisos entre suas paixões e a vida de dançarinos.
Best Foot Forward
Dancer
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
Get Hep to Love
Student
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
A Incrível Suzana
College Girl (uncredited)
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town in Iowa. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Kiki
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
Crash Donovan
Young Girl (uncredited)
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
Só Assim Quero Viver
Child at Christmas Party (Uncredited)
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
The Drunkard
Julia
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
Sob o Sol do Arizona
Nina
Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Jim Moore, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes
The Scarlet Letter
Humility Crakstone
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Mickey's Medicine Man
Tomboy Taylor
The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.
Mickey's Minstrels
Tomboy Taylor
In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.
Mickey's Tent Show
Tomboy Taylor
Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.
Mickey's Touchdown
'Tomboy' Taylor
Mickey and the gang get ready for a big game of football. But Stinky Davis has a few tricks up his sleeve to stop the gang from winning. Special guest star USC coach Howard Jones.
Mickey's Race
Tomboy Teri Taylor
Mickey and his gang of children enter a mule in a racing contest.
Once in a Lifetime
Flower Girl (uncredited)
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Love Pains
Girl at Ice Cream Counter (uncredited)
Mickey and Grady are left behind when a new kid comes to town and all the girls fall for him.
Bargain Day
Shirley
Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.
The Stolen Jools
Shirley Jean
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Little Daddy
Shirley
Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
Love Business
Shirley
Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.
Helping Grandma
Shirley
The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.