Shirley Deane

Shirley Deane (born Shirley Deane Blattenberger; March 16, 1913 – April 26, 1983) was an American film actress.

Early years Born in Fresno, California,

Career Deane was best known as an actress for playing "Bonnie Jones" in 20th Century Fox's Jones Family series of films. She was under contract with 20th Century Fox, and she acted in Prairie Moon (1936), the Flash Gordon serial, and some of the Charlie Chan films.

Deane also toured in revues, singing "some stirring patriotic and soft sentimental numbers". She was the headline attraction in Star Dust Revue, a stage show that toured the southern United States in 1942, and she performed in U. S. military camps.

Personal life and death On December 20, 1941, Dean married theatrical agent Thomas Kettering Jr. in Reno, Nevada. Deane left the film business in the 1940s, when she began her family. She died of cancer in Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, California, on April 26, 1983, aged 70.

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