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name: "Shirley Ross"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 January 1913"
died: "9 March 1975"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-19T23:19:47.943110+00:00"
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# Shirley Ross

Actor. Born 7 January 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Died 9 March 1975.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 January 1913, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- **Died:** 9 March 1975
- **Also known as:** Bernice Maude Gaunt, Bernice Dolan Blum
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ross, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7498838, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743841/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/149133

## Biography

Shirley Ross was an American actress and singer. Born Bernice Maude Gaunt on 7 January 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska, she died on 9 March 1975 in Menlo Park, California. She trained as a classical pianist, attending Hollywood High School and UCLA, and began performing by singing with Gus Arnheim's band and on radio. She also appeared in a west-coast stage production of Anything Goes.

Ross made her film debut, uncredited, in Bombshell (1933). She appeared in Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and played Trixie in San Francisco (1936), singing "Happy New Year". She duetted with Bob Hope on "Thanks for the Memory" in The Big Broadcast of 1938 and appeared in around 25 feature films between 1933 and 1945, frequently opposite Bing Crosby or Bob Hope. She was married to agent Ken Dolan from 1938 until his death in 1951 and later to Eddie Blum.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *San Francisco* (1936), Fi1m 71, as Trixie — [page](https://film.one/film/san-francisco.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Matinee Theater* (1955), series, Actor
- *A Song for Miss Julie* (1945), as Valerie Kimbro
- *Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2* (1941), Actor
- *Sailors on Leave* (1941), as Linda Hall
- *Kisses for Breakfast* (1941), as Juliet Marsden
- *Unexpected Father* (1939), as Dianna Donovan
- *Some Like It Hot* (1939), as Lily Racquel
- *Cafe Society* (1939), as Bells Browne
- *Paris Honeymoon* (1939), as Barbara Wayne
- *Thanks for the Memory* (1938), as Anne Merrick
- *Prison Farm* (1938), as Jean Forest
- *The Big Broadcast of 1938* (1938), as Cleo Fielding
- *Blossoms On Broadway* (1937), as Sally Shea
- *Waikiki Wedding* (1937), as Georgia Smith
- *Hideaway Girl* (1936), as Toni Ainsworth
- *The Big Broadcast of 1937* (1936), as Gwen Holmes
- *San Francisco* (1936), as Trixie — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/san-francisco.md)
- *Devil's Squadron* (1936), as Eunice
- *It's in the Air* (1935), as Cigar Stand Clerk (uncredited)
- *I Live My Life* (1935), as Vi (Uncredited)
- *Calm Yourself* (1935), as Ruth Rockwell
- *Age of Indiscretion* (1935), as Dotty
- *Two Hearts in Wax Time* (1935), as Mannequin Shirley (uncredited)
- *Buried Loot* (1935), as Girl in Apartment (uncredited)
- *What Price Jazz* (1934), as Singer
- *Manhattan Melodrama* (1934), as Singer in Cotton Club
- *Bombshell* (1933), as Singer (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Shirley Ross](https://film.one/media/person/1229316/gallery-b30432f6539f.jpg) Shirley Ross — Cine Mundial, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Shirley_Ross_CM238.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Shirley Ross, actress and singer, seated on a rolltop desk. Ross wears a dress with embroidered trim and a hat. (1933)](https://film.one/media/person/1229316/gallery-4d91b1acf892.jpg) Shirley Ross, actress and singer, seated on a rolltop desk. Ross wears a dress with embroidered trim and a hat. (1933) — Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Shirley_Ross%2C_1933.jpg/1280px-Shirley_Ross%2C_1933.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Shirley Ross](https://film.one/media/person/1229316/gallery-c9bb6790c9fa.jpg) Shirley Ross — Image via TMDB
- ![Shirley Ross](https://film.one/media/person/1229316/gallery-68be93712d23.jpg) Shirley Ross — Image via TMDB
- ![Shirley Ross](https://film.one/media/person/1229316/gallery-dcf9a62224cb.jpg) Shirley Ross — Image via TMDB

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