Ann Gillis

Personal Info

Birthday

February 12, 1927

Day of Death

2018-01-31

(90 years old)

Place of Birth

Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Also Known As

Anne Gillis

Alma Mabel Conner

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.

Known For

The Saint

2001: A Space Odyssey

Bambi

Man of the World

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Great Ziegfeld

Beau Geste

My Love Came Back

Filmography

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