Netflix Movies Starring Shirley Deane

Vivacious, sunny, blue-eyed Shirley Deane first trained as a dancer from the age of seven and learned to play the piano. She began her professional career on stage in San Francisco and arrived in Hollywood via winning a dancing beauty contest. Signed by 20th Century Fox primarily on the strength of her singing voice, she spent several years training in 'stock school' and assigned mainly extra work. Graduating to featured roles, her first significant speaking part was in Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936), appearing as a platinum blonde. She was then picked from fourteen other hopefuls for a lead in a comedy-drama about newly-weds, The First Baby (1936). This, in turn, led to her becoming a fixture in the series of low-budget, family-oriented Jones Family films, a modest rival to MGM's popular Hardy family. Read more on iMDB