Blonde band vocalist Shirley Ross came to films after fronting a popular radio and nightclub singing quartet. Her first notable film assignment was in blackface as a Harlem songstress in 1934's Manhattan Melodrama, in which she introduced the Rodgers and Hart standard "Blue Moon" (which in that film had different lyrics and a different title). She was signed to a Paramount contract shortly afterward, appearing opposite Bing Crosby in Waikiki Wedding (1937) and incongruously starring in the crime melodrama Prison Farm (1938). Her most famous moment in films occurred in The Big Broadcast of 1938, wherein she and Bob Hope introduced Hope's signature tune "Thanks for the Memory." After co-starring with Hope in two subsequent films, Shirley Ross was seen in only a handful of pictures before closing out her Hollywood career in 1945.
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A Song for Miss Julie
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1945 | |||
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Kisses for Breakfast
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1941 | |||
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Sailors on Leave
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1941 | |||
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Cafe Society
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1939 | |||
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Some Like It Hot
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1939 | |||
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Unexpected Father
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1939 | |||
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Paris Honeymoon
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1938 | |||
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Prison Farm
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1938 | |||
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Thanks for the Memory
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1938 | |||
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Blossoms on Broadway
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1937 | |||
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Hideaway Girl
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1937 | |||
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Waikiki Wedding
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1937 | |||
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Devil's Squadron
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1936 | |||
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San Francisco
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1936 | |||
| 1936 | ||||
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Buried Loot
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1935 | |||
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Calm Yourself
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1935 | |||
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Manhattan Melodrama
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1934 |