Shirley Mills

Shirley Mills was an American actress who started out as a child dancer and became best known for playing the youngest daughter of the family in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Born in Tacoma, Washington, she was about 12 when she took the title part in Child Bride (1938), a movie long labeled an exploitation film because of a nude swimming scene shot when she was that age. She also appeared in the Shirley Temple film Young People (1940), then stopped making films in her early twenties. In the 1960s she became a pioneer in selling data-processing services, and was the first woman to lead the Data Processing Management Association in Los Angeles; she was later a vice president at Management Applied Programming, handling marketing and public relations, and started a division there for nonprofit organizations. She died in 2010.