- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 12, 1927
- Place of Birth
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Died
- January 31, 2018
Ann Gillis
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 had two rare sympathetic roles as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) and as the title character in Little Orphan Annie (1938). One scene in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer called for her to go into screaming hysterics when her charac…
Filmography
movie2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · Poole's Mother
tvEspionage
1963 · Nurse
tvThe Saint
1962 · Beryl Carrington, Wilma
tvMan of the World
1962 · Susan Forrester
tvStudio One
1948
movieBig Town After Dark
1947 · Susan Peabody LaRue
movieSweetheart of Sigma Chi
1946 · Sue
movieThe Time of Their Lives
1946 · Nora O'Leary
movieJanie Gets Married
1946 · Paula Rainey
movieGay Blades
1946 · Helen Dowell (as Anne Gillis)
movieThe Cheaters
1945 · Angela Pidgeon
movieA Wave, a WAC and a Marine
1944 · Judy (as Anne Gillis)
movieJanie
1944 · Paula Rainey
movieIn Society
1944 · Gloria Winthrop
movieSince You Went Away
1944 · Becky Anderson (uncredited)
movieMan from Music Mountain
1943 · Penny Winters
movieStage Door Canteen
1943 · Ann Gillis
movie'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942 · Sylvia
movieBambi
1942 · Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)
movieTough as They Come
1942 · Frankie Taylor
movieMeet the Stewarts
1942 · Jane Goodwin
movieGlamour Boy
1941 · Brenda Lee
movieMr. Dynamite
1941 · Joey aka Abigail
movieNice Girl?
1941 · Nancy Dana
movieLittle Men
1940 · Nan
movieMy Love Came Back
1940 · Valerie Malette
movieAll This, and Heaven Too
1940 · Emily Schuyler
movieEdison, the Man
1940 · Nancy Grey
movieThe Under-Pup
1939 · Letty Lou
movieBeau Geste
1939 · Isobel Rivers (as a Child)
moviePeck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938 · Fluerette de Cava
Little Orphan Annie
movieLittle Orphan Annie
1938 · Annie
movieThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938 · Becky Thatcher
movieThe Californian
1937 · Rosalia as a Child
movieYou Can't Buy Luck
1937 · Peggy (uncredited)
movieOff to the Races
1937 · Winnie Mae
movieKing of Hockey
1936 · Peggy O'Rourke
movieUnder Your Spell
1936 · Gwendolyn (uncredited)
moviePostal Inspector
1936 · Little Alice (uncredited)
movieThe Singing Cowboy
1936 · Lou Ann Stevens
movieThe Great Ziegfeld
1936 · Mary Lou as a Child (uncredited)