Ann Gillis

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1927-02-12 (91 years old)

Deathday

2018-01-31

Place of Birth

Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Ann Gillis

Biography

Ann Gillis was born Alma Mabel Conner on February 12, 1927, in Little Rock, Arkansas. At age seven, she appeared in her first film, Men in White (1934), as an extra. During the next two years, she had uncredited appearances in six more films until she received her first major role in King of Hockey (1936). Warner Brothers Studios gave significant screen time to Gillis in this movie, in hopes that she would become another Shirley Temple. Although (like all child stars of the 1930s) she never achieved Temple's level of fame, for the next several years Gillis starred in many films, almost always playing a spoiled, bratty character. She ha...

Acting

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

as Poole's Mother

1942

Bambi

as Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)

1938

1937

Off to the Races

as Winnie Mae

1946

Janie Gets Married

as Paula Rainey

1944

In Society

as Gloria Winthrop

1941

Mr. Dynamite

as Joey aka Abigail

1942

Meet the Stewarts

as Jane Goodwin

1936

The Great Ziegfeld

as Mary Lou as a Child (uncredited)

1936

Under Your Spell

as Gwendolyn (uncredited)

1936

The Singing Cowboy

as Lou Ann Stevens

1947

Big Town After Dark

as Susan Peabody LaRue

1938

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

as Fluerette de Cava

1940

My Love Came Back

as Valerie Malette

1936

King of Hockey

as Peggy O'Rourke

1943

Man from Music Mountain

as Penny Winters

1941

Glamour Boy

as Brenda Lee

1939

Beau Geste

as Isobel Rivers (as a Child)

1940

1939

The Under-Pup

as Letty Lou

1937

You Can't Buy Luck

as Peggy (uncredited)

1940

All This, and Heaven Too

as Emily Schuyler

1936

Postal Inspector

as Little Alice (uncredited)

1940

Edison, the Man

as Nancy Grey

1943

Stage Door Canteen

as Ann Gillis

1944

A Wave, a WAC and a Marine

as Judy (as Anne Gillis)

1937

The Californian

as Rosalia as a Child

1944

Since You Went Away

as Becky Anderson - Class President (uncredited)

1945

The Cheaters

as Angela Pidgeon

1941

Nice Girl?

as Nancy Dana

1946

Gay Blades

as Helen Dowell (as Anne Gillis)

1942

Tough as They Come

as Frankie Taylor

1944

Janie

as Paula Rainey

1946

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