Shirley Ross

Person · Open Library

Works

40

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Film & TV

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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…

Known for

• Matinee Theater1955
• A Song for Miss Julie — Valerie Kimbro1945
• Kisses for Breakfast — Juliet Marsden1941
• Sailors on Leave — Linda Hall1941
• Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 21941
• Some Like It Hot — Lily Racquel1939
• Paris Honeymoon — Barbara Wayne1939
• Cafe Society — Bells Browne1939
• Unexpected Father — Dianna Donovan1939
• The Big Broadcast of 1938 — Cleo Fielding1938

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1944-03-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,836

Total plays

7,048

Shirley Ross (January 7, 1913 ― March 9, 1975) was an American actress and singer. The first of two daughters born to Charles Burr Gaunt and Maude C. Gaunt (née Ellis) during the century's second decade, Ross was born Bernice Maude Gaunt in Omaha, Nebraska, where she would reside until age 5, when her family moved to York. The following decade, the Gaunts relocated to California, due, at least in part, to Maude Gaunt's grand ambitions for Bernice, her firstborn. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mus

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Music

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Omaha

Place of death

Menlo Park

Occupation

film actor

Educated at

Hollywood High School

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Instrument

voice

Image

Shirley Ross CM238.jpg

Number of children

3

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