Shirley Jean Rickert

Actor · 1926 – 2009 · 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.

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Movie8.1
ComedyRomance
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · 3.6K votes
Movie6.4
MusicComedy
A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding.
Royal Wedding
1951 · 118 votes
Movie7.1
ComedyRomance
Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay half fare home. But little 'Sue Sue' finds herself in a whole heap of grownup trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Philip Kirby.
The Major and the Minor
1942 · 151 votes
Movie6.8
ComedyMusic
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.
Best Foot Forward
1943 · 5 votes
Movie5.6
Comedy
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
The Stolen Jools
1931 · 34 votes
Movie7.0
Western
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
The Drunkard
1935 · 1 votes
Movie6.6
ComedyDrama
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
I Live My Life
1935 · 10 votes
Movie7.6
ComedyMusic
Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
Follow Thru
1930 · 7 votes
Movie7.3
Comedy
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Once in a Lifetime
1932 · 3 votes
Movie7.0
DramaMusic
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
Get Hep to Love
1942 · 2 votes
Movie9.0
Drama
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
Straight from the Heart
1935 · 1 votes
Movie7.2
FamilyComedy
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940 · 5 votes
Movie4.8
ActionWestern
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
'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934 · 39 votes
Movie7.0
DocumentaryComedy
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, The Three Stooges, The East-Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.
Classic Comedy Teams
1986 · 1 votes
Movie10.0
Comedy
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 Touchdown
1933 · 1 votes
Movie6.9
Comedy
Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
Little Daddy
1931 · 11 votes
Movie8.0
Drama
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
Crash Donovan
1936 · 1 votes
Movie6.1
Comedy
Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.
Bargain Day
1931 · 6 votes
Movie8.0
In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.
Mickey's Minstrels
1934 · 1 votes
Movie5.1
Drama
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.
The Scarlet Letter
1934 · 15 votes
Movie9.0
Mickey and Grady are left behind when a new kid comes to town and all the girls fall for him.
Love Pains
1932 · 1 votes
Movie10.0
Comedy
Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.
Mickey's Tent Show
1933 · 1 votes
Movie7.0
Comedy
A group of young actresses reminisces about their days as part of a gang of kids, headed by Mickey McGuire. Their memories take the form of clips from episodes of the long running Mickey McGuire series of short comedies.
Mickey the Great
1945 · 1 votes
Movie10.0
When Billy get adopted by a rich couple, Mickey and the gang spring into action to bring their pal back home.
Mickey's Rescue
1934 · 1 votes