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Shirley Deane was an American movie actress. Born as Shirley Blattenberger in California on March 16, 1913. Shirley studied Drama in High School, and was also a singer. She won a contest and a screen test to go to work for a major movie studio, 20th Century-Fox where they changed her name to Shirley Deane.

She appeared in a few movies, primarily as a bit player, and got her first leading role in the 1936 motion picture The First Baby also starring Johnny Downs and Gene Lockhart.

Shirley made a number of films throughout the late thirties and into 1940, for 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, including number of films called The Jones Family series. Her last films were Prairie Moon with Gene Autry, and some of the Flash Gordon serials with Buster Crabbe, where she played Princess Aura.

Shirley married her personal manager Tom Kettering in 1941 and appeared to take a permanent hiatus from acting while she had 2 children, born in 1943 and 1952.

During the late 1950's she seemed to have a brief resurgence of her career, after appearing in 2 British made films, and appearing on a few movie magazine covers.

In 1961, having completely given up an acting career, she took a job selling expensive jewelry at a store in Glendale, California. finally retiring from that job in 1982.

Shirley died of cancer on April 26, 1983 at the Glendale Memorial Hospital.