Shirley Grey

Shirley Grey

Born: April 11, 1902
Died: August 12, 1981
in Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA
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Shirley Grey (April 11, 1902 – August 12, 1981) was an American actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1930 and 1935. She was born in Naugatuck, Connecticut and died in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.

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The Public Menace
Title: The Public Menace
Character: Mimi LaVerne
Released: September 30, 1935
Type: Movie
1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.
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The Girl Who Came Back
Title: The Girl Who Came Back
Character: Gilda Gillespie aka Mary Brown
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
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The People's Enemy
Title: The People's Enemy
Character: Ann Falcone
Released: April 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a lovely society lady? And with a young daughter as a bonus Mister Falcone could show off among the creme de la creme. Of course when times got rough he felt free to desert his wife and little girl. Fortunately Taps, a lawyer working for the underworld, will console them both.
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The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Title: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Character: Sarah Briggs
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
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Circumstantial Evidence
Title: Circumstantial Evidence
Character: Adrienne Grey
Released: March 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder victim turns out to be really dead
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Public Opinion
Title: Public Opinion
Character: Joan Nash
Released: March 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Title: Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Character: Anya Rosson
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
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Wednesday's Child
Title: Wednesday's Child
Character: Louise
Released: October 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
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Girl in Danger
Title: Girl in Danger
Character: Gloria Gale
Released: September 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
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His Greatest Gamble
Title: His Greatest Gamble
Character: Bernice
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
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Beyond the Law
Title: Beyond the Law
Character: Helen Glenn
Released: July 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Beyond the Law is a 1934 American film of crime, directed by D. Ross Lederman, starring Tim McCoy.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Mabel Wilson
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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Green Eyes
Title: Green Eyes
Character: Jean Kester
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
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One Is Guilty
Title: One Is Guilty
Character: Sally Grey
Released: May 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied.
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
Title: The Crime of Helen Stanley
Character: Betty Lane
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
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I Like it That Way
Title: I Like it That Way
Character: Peggy
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
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Bombay Mail
Title: Bombay Mail
Character: Beatrice Jones aka Sonia Smeganoff
Released: January 6, 1934
Type: Movie
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
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Murder on the Campus
Title: Murder on the Campus
Character: Lillian Voyne
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.
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Twin Husbands
Title: Twin Husbands
Character: Chloe Werrenden
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
The film begins with a guy waking up from a bump on the head. The people around him try in vain to convince him that five years have passed and that he's a rich guy. However, none of this makes sense to the character played by Miljan AND none of it makes any sense to the audience...none. After this plot is quickly abandoned, the film begins to get better. It seems that a wife and her business partner are trying to use Miljan as a double for her estranged and missing husband.
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Hold the Press
Title: Hold the Press
Character: Edith White
Released: October 25, 1933
Type: Movie
When newspaper reporter Tim Collins, of the "Post", is slugged while investigating the shooting of a big-time gambler, he sets out to get his man with such determination that he ends up in jail. There, he discovers a "parole racket" which involves a crooked politician, and he faces death to get the story for his paper.
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Too Much Harmony
Title: Too Much Harmony
Character: Lilyan
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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Don't Bet on Love
Title: Don't Bet on Love
Character: "Goldie" Williams
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Title: The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Character: Goldie West
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
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The Girl in 419
Title: The Girl in 419
Character: Nurse Irene Blaine
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
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The Little Giant
Title: The Little Giant
Character: Edith Merriam
Released: May 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
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Terror Aboard
Title: Terror Aboard
Character: Lili Kingston
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
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Out All Night
Title: Out All Night
Character: Kate
Released: April 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
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Private Jones
Title: Private Jones
Character: Helen Jones
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
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From Hell to Heaven
Title: From Hell to Heaven
Character: Winnie Lloyd
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
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Treason
Title: Treason
Character: Joan Randall
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
It's just after the Civil War in Kansas and Joan Randall and her troops are continuing the struggle. Jeff Conners is sent to bring her in and when he does she is found guilt and sentenced to hang. Earlier Jeff learned that her assistant Colonel Jedcott is the real culprit and rides to the Governor for a pardon only to be waylaid by Jedcott on the return trip.
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Uptown New York
Title: Uptown New York
Character: Patricia Smith
Released: November 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from a failed romance with aspiring Jewish doctor Max Silver (Leon Ames). But when Pat is nearly killed in an effort to protect her husband's gumball machines from hoodlums and is in need of a lifesaving operation, Eddie calls on Dr. Max
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Virtue
Title: Virtue
Character: Gert Hanlon
Released: October 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.
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Drifting Souls
Title: Drifting Souls
Character: Greta Janson
Released: August 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation. She soon finds herself involved with a newspaperman looking for a story, a drunken playboy and a con artist and his girlfriend out to fleece the playboy.
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Cornered
Title: Cornered
Character: Jane Herrick
Released: August 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Shortly after Moody Pierson saves Sheriff Tim's life, Moody is arrested for murder. Tim doesn't believe he did it and lets him get away. Kicked out as Sheriff, Tim goes after the real kiler and this leads him to the town controlled by Red Slavins.
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Back Street
Title: Back Street
Character: Francine
Released: August 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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The Hurricane Express
Title: The Hurricane Express
Character: The Secretary
Released: August 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
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The Riding Tornado
Title: The Riding Tornado
Character: Patsy Olcott
Released: May 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torrent goes to work for Olcott. Torrent fights with Stark and Stark quits and goes to work for Engle. Rustlers are stealing horses. Carson suspects Olcott and Olcott suspects Carson. Sheriff prevents war between them. Torrent stops wild horse stampede. Starks spills beans on Engle. Torrent kills Engle and wins Patsy Olcott.
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Get That Girl
Title: Get That Girl
Character: Ruth Dale
Released: April 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A young girl, who is about to receive a large inheritance, is abducted to an isolated sanitarium where a crazed doctor is performing strange experiments.
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Texas Cyclone
Title: Texas Cyclone
Character: Helen Rawlins
Released: February 24, 1932
Type: Movie
When Texas Grant rides into town people think the supposedly dead Jim Rawlins has returned. After a confrontation with Utah Becker, Grant learns Jim's wife, Helen, is about to lose her ranch to Becker, so he decides to stay and pose as Rawlins in an effort to help her.
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Air Eagles
Title: Air Eagles
Character: Eve
Released: December 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
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One Man Law
Title: One Man Law
Character: Grace Duncan
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Streetor is pulling off a land swindle and wants Thompson on his side. He does him a favor and then makes him Sheriff. But as Streetor evicts the ranchers, Thompson and Judge Cooper look for a legal device to stop him.
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Secret Service
Title: Secret Service
Character: Edith Varney
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
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The Public Defender
Title: The Public Defender
Character: Barbara Gerry
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
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The Golf Specialist
Title: The Golf Specialist
Character: House Detective's Wife
Released: August 22, 1930
Type: Movie
At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy.