Shirley Ross
演员
28
电影
1
电视节目
Blonde, vivacious and obviously talented, Shirley Ross had the promisings of a big musical film star, but her career remained strictly second-string throughout her fairly short career. She is best remembered through her pairing with an entertainment legend: Shirley was afforded the opportunity of duetting with Bob Hope on the song "Thanks for the Memory" in the splashy musical The Big Broadcast of 1938. The song, of course, became Bob's beloved signature tune.
Shirley was born Bernice Gaunt in Omaha, Nebraska in 1913. Her family moved west and she attended Hollywood High School, later studying at UCLA. Blessed with a gorgeous musical instrument, and an adept piano player as well, Shirley went on to sing with Gus Arnheim's band on the west coast, appearing at all the swanky clubs of the day, including the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, while making a decent name for herself on radio. She also appeared in a west coast production of "Anything Goes".
MGM initially scooped her up, making her unbilled debut in the Jean Harlow starrer Blonde Bombshell (1933). She continued on just as obscurely in the films Hollywood Party (1934), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), The Girl from Missouri (1934), The Merry Widow (1934), and Age of Indiscretion (1935), but was finally promoted to a minor featured role in the classic earthquake epic San Francisco (1936) with Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald, in which Shirley sang "Happy New Year".
In 1936, she found more visible work over at Paramount and spent the next few years there paired up vocally and romantically with either Bing Crosby or Bob Hope in their popular vehicles - The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936), Waikiki Wedding (1937), Thanks for the Memory (1938), Paris Honeymoon (1939), and Some Like It Hot (1939). Though most were trifling, insignificant time fillers, she was a diverting beauty and quite serviceable in them. She was even given the chance to topline a few of her own movies such as Prison Farm (1938), Sailors on Leave (1941), and A Song for Miss Julie (1945), which was her swan song.
After leaving pictures, Shirley Ross was little heard or seen. Married first to agent John Kenneth 'Ken' Dolan, then to Everett S. 'Eddie' Blum, she had three children - two sons and a daughter. She died in Menlo Park, California of cancer in 1975.
作为演员/演员
日场剧院
旧金山
特里克西
重磅炸弹
歌手(未列入名单)
I Live My Life
Vi (Uncredited)
曼哈顿情节剧
Singer in Cotton Club
Blossoms On Broadway
Sally Shea
监狱农场
Jean Forest
休假的水手
Linda Hall
Waikiki Wedding
Georgia Smith
圣巴巴拉节
自己
海达·霍珀的好莱坞第二名
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Cleo Fielding
It's in the Air
Cigar Stand Clerk (uncredited)
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Lily Racquel
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Gwen Holmes
A Song for Miss Julie
Valerie Kimbro
Cafe Society
Bells Browne
Kisses for Breakfast
Juliet Marsden
Thanks for the Memory
Anne Merrick
Calm Yourself
Ruth Rockwell
Age of Indiscretion
Dotty
隐藏的女孩
Toni Ainsworth
Unexpected Father
Dianna Donovan
Paris Honeymoon
Barbara Wayne
Devil's Squadron
尤尼斯
Buried Loot
Girl in Apartment (uncredited)
Jail Birds of Paradise
她自己
Two Hearts in Wax Time
Mannequin Shirley (uncredited)
What Price Jazz
歌手