Shirley Grey

Acting

Shirley Grey

Born 1902-04-11 · Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Acting credits

Terror Aboard poster
6.5

An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.

Terror Aboard

1933

Sisters Under the Skin poster
10.0

Wealthy, aging millionaire John Hunter Yates (Frank Morgan) seeks to recapture his youth by pursuing a young actress, Blossom Bailey (Elissa Landi), leading him from America to Europe, where he finances her and a musician lover, only to realize his mistakes and return to his neglected wife, Elinor, understanding their true connection.

Sisters Under the Skin

1934

Bombay Mail poster
7.5

In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.

Bombay Mail

1934

The Riding Tornado poster
7.0

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.

The Riding Tornado

1932

The Girl in 419 poster
4.2

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.

The Girl in 419

1933

Back Street poster
6.4

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

Back Street

1932

Virtue poster
6.6

A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York City street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder.

Virtue

1932

Girl in Danger poster
8.0

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

Girl in Danger

1934

Cornered poster
7.5

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.

Cornered

1932

Out All Night poster
7.5

A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.

Out All Night

1933

The Defense Rests poster
7.1

A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

The Defense Rests

1934

Don't Bet on Love poster
8.0

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.

Don't Bet on Love

1933

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round poster
4.6

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.

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

1934

The Public Menace poster
6.0

1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.

The Public Menace

1935

Twin Husbands poster
4.7

The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating him so they can get their hands on what remains of his wealth.

Twin Husbands

1933

The Little Giant poster
7.0

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.

The Little Giant

1933

The Hurricane Express poster
5.4

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

The Hurricane Express

1932

The Crime of Helen Stanley poster
5.6

An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.

The Crime of Helen Stanley

1934

The Golf Specialist poster
5.3

At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy.

The Golf Specialist

1930

One Is Guilty poster
4.3

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.

One Is Guilty

1934

Circumstantial Evidence poster
6.3

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

Circumstantial Evidence

1935

One Man Law poster
6.3

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.

One Man Law

1931

Beyond the Law poster
9.0

Railroad Detective Tim Weston, charmed by Helen Glenn, agrees to clear her ex-convict father, John Glenn, of a murder and a robbery he did not commit. Complications quickly arrive and Weston finds himself hunted rather than being the hunter. A lost film.

Beyond the Law

1934

Texas Cyclone poster
4.5

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.

Texas Cyclone

1932