Cast: Anne Shirley

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Anne Shirley. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Stella Dallas

1937 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Boles · Anne Shirley · Alan Hale

Synopsis Working-class Stella Martin marries high-end Stephen Dallas and soon they have a daughter named Laurel. But Stephen's incessant demands of Stella to become what she isn't leads to their eventual separation. Stephen later marries Helen Morrison (his prior fiancée), and...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

City Girl

1930 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Charles Farrell · Mary Duncan · David Torrence · Edith Yorke

Synopsis Director F.W. Murnau began City Girl as a silent film, hoping to match the artistic triumph of his earlier Sunrise. Murnau was frustrated by two elements: Fox's decision to hastily convert the film into a talkie, and his inability to...

7.4

561 votes

7.4

561 votes

Murder, My Sweet

1944 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Dick Powell · Claire Trevor · Anne Shirley · Otto Kruger

Synopsis Detective Philip Marlowe''s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Devil and Daniel Webster

1941 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward Arnold · Walter Huston · James Craig · Jane Darwell

Synopsis William Dieterle adapts Stephen Vincent Benet's transformation of the Faust legend from the tale of an aging genius to that of struggling New Hampshire farmer Jabez Stone, played by James Craig. When Stone absently exclaims that he would sell his...

6.7

489 votes

6.7

489 votes

Three on a Match

1932 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Virginia Davis · Joan Blondell · Anne Shirley · Ann Dvorak

Synopsis Three women who were childhood schoolmates take different paths in life. Vivian marries a very wealthy lawyer and has an adorable boy. Mary, on the other hand, takes the hard road through reform school. After a superstitious faux pas, Vivian's...

6.5

150 votes

6.5

150 votes

6.4

66 votes

Vigil in the Night

1940 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Carole Lombard · Brian Aherne · Anne Shirley · Julien Mitchell

Synopsis Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job, and gets a new one at a poorly equipped country hospital. There she falls in love with Dr....

6.3

113 votes

6.3

113 votes

Liliom

1930 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Charles Farrell · Rose Hobart · Estelle Taylor · H.B. Warner

Synopsis Charles Farrell in his greatest role.

6.3

66 votes

6.3

66 votes

Finishing School

1934 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction George Nichols Jr. · Wanda Tuchock

Cast Frances Dee · Billie Burke · Ginger Rogers · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis Virginia Radcliff, a remarkably unspoiled but naive rich-kid, finds herself at a swank girls' school where everything appears prim and proper, but the motto is essentially "Don't Get Caught." On a surreptitious field trip to the city (engineered by "Pony"),...

6.2

55 votes

6.2

55 votes

Young America

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Spencer Tracy · Doris Kenyon · Ralph Bellamy · Tommy Conlon

Synopsis Already in trouble with the law, Arthur and his friend Nutty break into a drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. The druggist's wife, Mrs. Doray, asks for custody. When he hears them arguing over him, Arthur runs away. When...

6.1

38 votes

6.1

38 votes

Bombardier

1943 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Eugene L. Eubank · Pat O'Brien · Randolph Scott · Anne Shirley

Synopsis Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic,...

5.2

65 votes

5.2

65 votes

A Man to Remember

1938 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast Anne Shirley · Edward Ellis · Lee Bowman · William Henry

Synopsis On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

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Unexpected Uncle

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Peter Godfrey

Cast Anne Shirley · James Craig · Charles Coburn · Ernest Truex

Synopsis A feisty retiree plays peacemaker for a young couple.

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Girls' School

1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Anne Shirley · Nan Grey · Ralph Bellamy · Dorothy Moore

Synopsis The film revolves around wealthy high school teenagers who are send to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. One of the girls causes a scandal when she stays out all night, then announces on planning to elope with a...

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Direction Ludwig Berger

Cast Emil Jannings · Ruth Chatterton · Barry Norton · Jean Arthur

Synopsis A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.

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Saturday's Children

1940 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast John Garfield · Anne Shirley · Claude Rains · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a scheme of going to Manila to turn hemp into silk and become rich. But when one of her family talks Bobby into...

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Too Many Wives

1937 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Ben Holmes

Cast Anne Shirley · John Morley · Gene Lockhart · Dudley Clements

Synopsis An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.

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