Shirley Jean Rickert Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Shirley Jean Rickert won a baby contest in Seattle when she was about 1-1/2 and her mother relocated the entire family to Hollywood, as she was sure she had a child star. Her first movie was How's My Baby? (1930) with Monte Collins and T. Roy Barnes. Shortly after that she went on an interview at the Hal Roach studio and became a part of the "Our ...
Platinum blond hair, heavily moussed, with four spit curls.
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[We were] all just kids playing together. We had fun. The mothers on the other hand, were awful. Stage mothers are just vile women, including my own. [It was] my mother's dream, but it wasn't mine.
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I see more flesh in television commercials today than I used to see in burlesque.
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Detroit was one of the towns where I would appear on a kiddie TV show on Saturday morning as Shirley Jean of the Our Gang/Little Rascals, and disrobe on stage at night for the little kiddies' parents.
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Was cast in a reprise of the Stillwater Players Among Others production of Woddy Allen's "Don't Drink The Water" as the Chef. [June 2003]
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Shirley's "Our Gang" spit-curled blonde character "look" was styled after Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty Ruth Taylor who was the star of the original "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" on stage.
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After she quit burlesque, she found a diverse variety of jobs to maintain an income: bartender, secretary, theater sales director, truck driver for the Air Force, dress shop saleslady, nuts and bolts saleslady, marketing director, and jewelry designer/painter.
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After her film career (early 1950s) she became a blonde-maned exotic dancer who professionally went by "Gilda and Her Crowning Glory" and played both in the States and Canada.
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Married and divorced twice and had one daughter, Melody.
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Designed and printed a Shirley Jean Memorabilia Catalog which offers Our Gang items at a price the average Our Gang fan can afford...it is NOT for collectors, just the people who still like the Our Gang/Little Rascals.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Human Jungle
1954
Stripper (uncredited)
The A-B-C's of Love
1953
as Gilda
Singin' in the Rain
1952
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
The Pace That Thrills
1952
Girl (uncredited)
Royal Wedding
1951
Dancer in Haiti Number (uncredited)
Good News
1947
Dancer (uncredited)
If I'm Lucky
1946
Dancer (uncredited)
Meet the People
1944
Dancer (uncredited)
In Old Oklahoma
1943
Dancer (uncredited)
Best Foot Forward
1943
Dancer (uncredited)
Get Hep to Love
1942
Student (uncredited)
The Major and the Minor
1942
College Girl (uncredited)
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
Kiki
Crash Donovan
1936
Young Girl (uncredited)
I Live My Life
1935
Child at Christmas Party (uncredited)
The Drunkard
1935
Julia (as Shirley Jean)
Straight from the Heart
1935
Austin's Daughter (uncredited)
One Hour Late
1934
Child (uncredited)
'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934
Nina (as Shirley Jane Rickert)
I'll Fix It
1934
Little Girl (uncredited)
The Scarlet Letter
1934
Humility Crakstone
Mickey's Medicine Man
1934
Short
Tomboy Taylor
Mickey's Rescue
1934
Short
Tomboy Taylor (as Shirley Jeane Rickert)
Mickey's Minstrels
1934
Short
Tomboy Taylor (as Shirley Jeane Rickert)
Mickey's Covered Wagon
1933
Short
Tomboy Taylor
Mickey's Tent Show
1933
Short
Tomboy Taylor (as Shirley Jeane Rickert)
Mickey's Touchdown
1933
Short
'Tomboy' Taylor (as Shirley Jeane Rickert)
Once in a Lifetime
1932
Flower Girl (uncredited)
Love Pains
1932
Short
Girl at Ice Cream Counter (uncredited)
Fly My Kite
1931
Short
Shirley (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Bargain Day
1931
Short
Shirley (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
The Stolen Jools
1931
Short
Shirley Jean
Little Daddy
1931
Short
Shirley (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Love Business
1931
Short
Shirley (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Helping Grandma
1931
Short
Shirley (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Follow Thru
1930
Little Cherub - 'I Want To Be Bad' Musical Number (uncredited)
Night Work
1930
Orphan (uncredited)
How's My Baby?
1930
Short
The Baby
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
performer: "The Blue Danube Waltz, Opus 314" 1867 - uncredited
$1 Million
