
Anne Shirley
Acting
🎂 1918-04-17
Anne Shirley (born Dawn Evelyeen Paris) was an American child, teen, and young adult screen actress. She retired at age 26. Initially appearing in films under the name Dawn O'Day, she changed her name to Anne Shirley (the name of the title character she portrayed) upon the success of the 1934 film Anne of Green Gables.
Cast credits(65)

Ann Grayle
1944

Mary Stone
1941

Annabelle Porter
1938

Self (archive footage)
1988

Marie Tustine
1930

Laurel "Lollie" Dallas
1937

Anne Shirley
1934

Vivian Revere as a Child
1932

Burton Hughes
1943

Princess Anastasia (uncredited)
1932

Bobby Halevy
1940

Isabelle as a Child (uncredited)
1932

Louise
1930

Sarah Tipton (uncredited)
1932

May Harness Blake
1943

Mary Callahan (as Dawn O'Day)
1927

Billie
1934

Mary Lou
1933

Ellen Evans
1943

1941

Flower peddler
1934

Jean Johnson
1938

Jenny Yates
1936

(archive footage)
1946

Annie
1939

Lucy Lee
1940

Don Balthazar Carlos (as Dawn O'Day)
1923

Fleety Belle
1935

A. C. Baker
1943

Dorothy
1924

Kathleen Brown
1941

Karanina 'Nina' Novak, the Jill
1942

Mabel Saunders
1932

(archive footage)
1949

Girl
1923

Marion as a girl
1928

Frankie Foster
1944

Mary, as a child (as Dawn O'Day)
1928

Sylvia Bartholomew
1939

Nancy (as Dawn O'Day)
1922

Nancy Hull
1941

Miriam Johnson (uncredited)
1934

Young Selina Peake (uncredited)
1932

Louise Foster
1937

Jessey Lee
1942

M'Liss Smith
1936

Nancy Carey
1938

June Drew
1936

Anne, as a child
1931

Millie Anson
1938

Catherine Fogarty (as Dawn O'Day)
1934

Horton's Daughter
1931

Fay Larkin (uncredited)
1925

Jeanne Alexandre
1935
Sally, as a child
1928

Natalie Freeman
1938

Alice
1925

Anne Shirley
1935

Anne
1940

Betty Jackson
1937

Diana Kennedy
1944

Alice Fisher
1939

1925

Girl
1922

Little Margaret Sones
1924