Actor
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 ...

Known For
Acting
1968 -- 2001: A Space Odyssey | Poole's Mother
1947 -- Big Town After Dark | Susan Peabody LaRue
1946 -- Sweetheart of Sigma Chi | Sue
1946 -- The Time of Their Lives | Nora O'Leary
1946 -- Janie Gets Married | Paula Rainey
1946 -- Gay Blades | Helen Dowell (as Anne Gillis)
1945 -- The Cheaters | Angela Pidgeon
1944 -- A Wave, a WAC and a Marine | Judy (as Anne Gillis)
1944 -- Janie | Paula Rainey
1944 -- In Society | Gloria Winthrop
1944 -- Since You Went Away | Becky Anderson - Class President (uncredited)
1943 -- Man from Music Mountain | Penny Winters
1943 -- Stage Door Canteen | Ann Gillis
1942 -- 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge | Sylvia
1942 -- Tough as They Come | Frankie Taylor
1942 -- Meet the Stewarts | Jane Goodwin
1942 -- Bambi | Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)
1941 -- Glamour Boy | Brenda Lee
1941 -- Mr. Dynamite | Joey aka Abigail
1941 -- Nice Girl? | Nancy Dana
1940 -- Little Men | Nan
1940 -- My Love Came Back | Valerie Malette
1940 -- All This, and Heaven Too | Emily Schuyler
1940 -- Edison, the Man | Nancy Grey
1939 -- The Under-Pup | Letty Lou
1939 -- Beau Geste | Isobel Rivers (as a Child)
1938 -- Little Orphan Annie | Annie
1938 -- Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus | Fluerette de Cava
1938 -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Becky Thatcher
1937 -- The Californian | Rosalia as a Child
1937 -- You Can't Buy Luck | Peggy (uncredited)
1937 -- Off to the Races | Winnie Mae
1936 -- King of Hockey | Peggy O'Rourke
1936 -- Under Your Spell | Gwendolyn (uncredited)
1936 -- Postal Inspector | Little Alice (uncredited)
1936 -- The Singing Cowboy | Lou Ann Stevens
1936 -- The Great Ziegfeld | Mary Lou as a Child (uncredited)
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