Acting

Shirley Jean Rickert

Born 1926-03-25 · 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.

Acting credits

Singin' in the Rain poster
8.1

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

Royal Wedding poster
6.4

A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding.

Royal Wedding

1951

The Major and the Minor poster
7.1

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

The Stolen Jools poster
5.6

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

Helping Grandma poster
7.0

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.

Helping Grandma

1931

I Live My Life poster
6.6

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

I Live My Life

1935

Follow Thru poster
7.6

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

'Neath the Arizona Skies poster
4.8

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

Best Foot Forward poster
6.8

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

Crash Donovan poster
8.0

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

Crash Donovan

1936

Get Hep to Love poster
7.0

Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.

Get Hep to Love

1942

Straight from the Heart poster
9.0

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

Five Little Peppers in Trouble poster
7.2

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

The Scarlet Letter poster
5.1

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

Little Daddy poster
6.8

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

Little Daddy

1931

Once in a Lifetime poster
7.3

Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.

Once in a Lifetime

1932

Classic Comedy Teams poster
7.0

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

The Drunkard poster
7.0

An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.

The Drunkard

1935

Mickey's Rescue poster
10.0

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

Mickey's Touchdown poster
10.0

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

Mickey the Great poster
7.0

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

Mickey's Minstrels poster
8.0

In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.

Mickey's Minstrels

1934

Love Business poster
6.8

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

Love Business

1931

Mickey's Medicine Man poster
7.0

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 Medicine Man

1934