Shirley Jean Rickert

Shirley Jean Rickert

Born: March 25, 1926
Died: February 6, 2009
in Seattle, Washington, USA
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.

Movies for Shirley Jean Rickert...

The A-B-Cs of Love
Title: The A-B-Cs of Love
Character: Gilda
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Filmed version of a burlesque performance, featuring strippers, songs and comedy routines.
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Singin' in the Rain
Title: Singin' in the Rain
Character: Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
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Royal Wedding
Title: Royal Wedding
Character: Dancer in Haiti Number (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest, Ellen with Lord John Brindale and Tom with dancer Anne Ashmond.
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Best Foot Forward
Title: Best Foot Forward
Character: Dancer
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Get Hep to Love
Title: Get Hep to Love
Character: Student
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
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The Major and the Minor
Title: The Major and the Minor
Character: College Girl (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Title: Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Character: Kiki
Released: September 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
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Crash Donovan
Title: Crash Donovan
Character: Young Girl (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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I Live My Life
Title: I Live My Life
Character: Child at Christmas Party (Uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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The Drunkard
Title: The Drunkard
Character: Julia
Released: April 3, 1935
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
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'Neath the Arizona Skies
Title: 'Neath the Arizona Skies
Character: Nina
Released: December 5, 1934
Type: Movie
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
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The Scarlet Letter
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: Humility Crakstone
Released: September 18, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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Mickey's Medicine Man
Title: Mickey's Medicine Man
Character: Tomboy Taylor
Released: May 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.
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Mickey's Minstrels
Title: Mickey's Minstrels
Character: Tomboy Taylor
Released: January 10, 1934
Type: Movie
In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.
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Mickey's Tent Show
Title: Mickey's Tent Show
Character: Tomboy Taylor
Released: October 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.
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Mickey's Touchdown
Title: Mickey's Touchdown
Character: 'Tomboy' Taylor
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
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.
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Mickey's Race
Title: Mickey's Race
Character: Tomboy Teri Taylor
Released: April 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Mickey and his gang of children enter a mule in a racing contest.
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Once in a Lifetime
Title: Once in a Lifetime
Character: Flower Girl (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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Love Pains
Title: Love Pains
Character: Girl at Ice Cream Counter (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Mickey and Grady are left behind when a new kid comes to town and all the girls fall for him.
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Bargain Day
Title: Bargain Day
Character: Shirley
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Shirley Jean
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Little Daddy
Title: Little Daddy
Character: Shirley
Released: March 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
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Love Business
Title: Love Business
Character: Shirley
Released: February 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.
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Helping Grandma
Title: Helping Grandma
Character: Shirley
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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How's My Baby?
Title: How's My Baby?
Character: The Baby
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
1930 Comedy short