Ann Gillis
Acting
Born February 12, 1927 · Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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…
Known For · 40 titles
Studio One
The Saint
2001: A Space Odyssey
Bambi
Espionage
Man of the World
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
All This, and Heaven Too
Nice Girl?
The Great Ziegfeld
The Cheaters
The Time of Their Lives
Since You Went Away
Beau Geste
Stage Door Canteen
Meet the Stewarts
Gay Blades
Edison, the Man
Postal Inspector
You Can't Buy Luck
My Love Came Back
Glamour Boy
Big Town After Dark
In Society
Man from Music Mountain
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
King of Hockey
Under Your Spell
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
The Californian
Janie Gets Married
Tough as They Come
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
Little Men
Janie
Mr. Dynamite
The Singing Cowboy
The Under-Pup
Off to the Races