Bill ShirleyFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: American actor/singer of stage and screen Bill Shirley appeared in a few routine programmers of the 1940s. He also provided the voice of Prince Charming in 1959's Sleeping Beauty. Shirley also did some dubbing for the 1964 film version of My Fair Lady. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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My Fair Lady

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper

Synopsis: At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) meets linguistic Read More

1964
Sleeping Beauty

Actors: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton

Synopsis: Disney produced this lavish animated fairy tale, the most expensive cartoon ever made up to its release with a budget of $6 million. When the young princess Aurora is cursed at birth by the evil fairy Maleficent, the baby is kidnapped by a trio of good fairies who raise the girl themselves, hoping Read More

1959
Sweethearts on Parade

Actors: Ray Middleton, Lucille Norman, Eileen Christy, Bill Shirley

Synopsis: Ray Middleton and Bill Shirley, Republic Pictures' answer to Hope and Crosby, star in Sweethearts on Parade. Middleton and Shirley play Cam Ellerby and Bill Gamble, the featured singers in a travelling medicine show. While stopping over in a small town, Cam renews his acquaintance with his former Read More

1953
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton, Hillary Brooke, Bill Shirley

Synopsis: Though out of favor with many Abbott and Costello buffs, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is actually a lot of fun, so long as the viewer parks logic and dignity at the door. Captain Kidd is played by no less than Charles Laughton, who reportedly agreed to sign up for this film because he Read More

1952
I Dream of Jeanie

Actors: Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy, Lynn Bari, Dick Simmons

Synopsis: The life of Stephen Foster, one of America's greatest and best-loved songwriters of the 19th century, sets the stage for this musical biography. Foster (Bill Shirley) is a shy bookkeeper who writes songs in his spare time. He is madly in love with Inez McDowell (Muriel Lawrence), but she isn't Read More

1952
Three Little Sisters

Actors: Mary Lee, Ruth Terry, Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Jackie Moran

Synopsis: In this romance, a GI falls in love with his pen-pal. Believing her to be a wealthy, beautiful girl, he goes to see her after the war. Unbeknownst to him, the girl is actually impoverished and wheelchair bound. Her two sisters work as char women and barely make enough to live on. When the soldier Read More

1944
Ice-Capades Revue

Actors: Ellen Drew, Richard Denning, Jerry Colonna, Barbara Jo Allen, Harold Huber

Synopsis: Republic's ongoing professional association with the celebrated "Ice-Capades" skating show yielded a number of flashy but forgettable musicals, including 1942's Ice-Capades Revue. Though a plot is hardly necessary, the story concerns New England farm gal Ann (Ellen Drew), whose already-mounting Read More

1942
The Flying Tigers

Actors: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Mae Clarke, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: The Flying Tigers were a group of American volunteer aviators, flying against the Japanese on behalf of General Claire Chennault and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek in the months just prior to World War II. John Wayne is the most responsible of the bunch, and John Carroll the least. It's bad enough Read More

1942
Hi, Neighbor

Synopsis: Hi, Neighbor is a Republic "regional," spotlighting many of the 1942 stars of radio's Grand Ole Opry. Jean Parker and John Archer are among the rather mature coeds of a financially strapped college. In order to raise enough funds to remain open in the fall, the kids decide to turn the college into Read More

1942
Doctors Don't Tell

Synopsis: In this medical melodrama, a young MD finds himself in love with a woman who doesn't love him. She is interested in an older, more sophisticated doctor. After she discovers that the older medic has a sleazy side, she decides to go for the younger doctor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1941
Sailors on Leave

Actors: William Lundigan, Shirley Ross, Chick Chandler, Ruth Donnelly, Mae Clarke

Synopsis: Sailors on Leave stars William Lundigan as sailor Chuck Stephens, who has borrowed so much money from his fellow gobs that he's in debt up to his eyelids. Chuck's shipmates decide to get even with him by arranging a "fake" marriage with cafe songstress Shirley Ross that turns out to be genuine. Read More

1941
Rookies on Parade

Actors: Bob Crosby, Ruth Terry, Gertrude Niesen, Eddie Foy, Jr., Marie Wilson

Synopsis: Hoping to cash in on the success of Universal's Buck Privates, Republic Pictures hastily commissioned an imitation, Rookies on Parade. Instead of Abbott and Costello, Republic settled for bandleader Bob Crosby and comedian Eddie Foy Jr., a not-so-unfair exchange at that. The story details the Read More

1941

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Bill ShirleyFilmography

My Fair Lady

Sleeping Beauty

Sweethearts on Parade

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

I Dream of Jeanie

Three Little Sisters

Ice-Capades Revue

The Flying Tigers

Hi, Neighbor

Doctors Don't Tell

Sailors on Leave

Rookies on Parade

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