Highest rated movie: Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Lowest rated movie: I Live My Life (1935)
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Movies starring Shirley Jean Rickert have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 70%.
Singin' in the Rain - released in 1952 - is Shirley Jean Rickert's highest rated movie, with a score of 89% based on 845 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Shirley Jean Rickert is I Live My Life - released in 1935 - with a score of 60% based on 2 reviews.
Shirley Jean Rickert (March 25, 1926 – February 6, 2009) was an American child actress who was briefly the "blonde girl" for the Our Gang series in 1931, during the Hal Roach talkie period. At 18 months of age, Rickert won a local baby beauty contest, which emboldened her mother to move the family to Hollywood. She made her screen debut at the age of four in the short How's My Baby (1930), soon followed by her Our Gang debut, Helping Grandma in 1931. Rickert's most notable appearances were in the films Love Business and Bargain Day, in which her spit-curls were the centerpiece of her precocious performance.
After Rickert left the Our Gang series, she had a brief movie career, including starring roles as Tomboy Teri Taylor alongside Mickey Rooney in eight Mickey McGuire comedies, followed by a string of jobs including driving trucks for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. She later worked in burlesque as an exotic dancer, billed as Gilda and Her Crowning Glory (after her long blonde hair), retiring from burlesque in 1959. People are so amazed to hear I went from movies into burlesque. Well, I'll tell you, I prefer burlesque because it's not so immoral as the movie business. — Shirley Jean Rickert, 1955 news article
In the mid-1970s, she became a traveling saleswoman for industrial hardware, surprising potential clients with her starring roles in Our Gang. Later, she performed in local theater productions, helped to maintain a Web fansite, and made occasional public appearances. She also sold her crafts at a local shop with her daughter's family.
Shirley Jean Rickert has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Joan Crawford, Donald O'Connor and Mae Clarke.
Shirley Jean Rickert has worked with these film directors: Stanley Donen, Billy Wilder, Gene Kelly and Victor Heerman.
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