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Biography
Shirley Ann Richards was an Australian actress and author who achieved notability in a series of 1930s Australian films for Ken G. Hall before moving to the United States, where she continued her career as a film actress, mainly as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starlet. Her best known performances were in It Isn't Done (1937), Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938), An American Romance (1944), and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). In the 1930s, she was the only Australian actor under a long-term contract to a film studio, Cinesound Productions. She subsequently became a lecturer and poet.
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Filmography5 titles

Random Harvest
1942as Bridget
1942as Bridget

Sorry, Wrong Number
1948as Sally Hunt Lord
1948as Sally Hunt Lord

Love Letters
1945as Dilly Carson
1945as Dilly Carson

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995as Thunder Mountain Woman (voice)
1995as Thunder Mountain Woman (voice)

Badman's Territory
1946as Henryetta Alcott
1946as Henryetta Alcott