Shirley Grey

Shirley Grey (born Agnes Zetterstrand; April 11, 1902 – August 12, 1981) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 40 films between 1930 and 1935.
Biography
Born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, Grey was the daughter of E. A Zetterstrand, a minister, who died when she was eight years old. Thereafter, her mother raised Grey and her six siblings. She graduated from Waterbury High School, where she was active in the Dramatic Club.
Grey began her acting career with the Poli Players. She went on to act with companies in New Orleans, Louisiana; Jacksonville, Florida; San Francisco, California, and Nova Scotia. She had her own acting troupe, the Shirley Grey Players, in the late 1920s. In 1931, she starred in the comedy-drama Chicago at the Fulton Theater in Oakland, California. It was the third play of Grey's "limited season".
Grey's work in stock theater led to her career in films. A talent scout who worked for film producer Samuel Goldwyn saw Grey performing in a stock production in Oakland and arranged for her to take a screen test, which led to her signing a contract with Goldwyn.
On August 28, 1921, Grey married actor Foster Williams, known professionally as Frank McCarthy. She filed for divorce from him on September 30, 1925. In 1936, Grey married English actor Arthur Margetson, who died in 1951.
In her later years, Grey was a semi-recluse, living with her sisters before moving to a Jacksonville Beach, Florida, convalescent home where she died.
Partial filmography
The Golf Specialist (1930, Short) - House Detective's Wife (uncredited)
The Public Defender (1931) - Barbara Gerry
Secret Service (1931) - Miss Edith Varney
Air Eagles (1931) - Eve
One Man Law (1932) - Grace Duncan
Texas Cyclone (1932) - Helen Rawlings
The Riding Tornado (1932) - Patsy Olcott
Get That Girl (1932) - Ruth Dale
The Hurricane Express (1932) - Gloria Martin / Gloria Stratton
Cornered (1932) - Jane Herrick
Drifting Souls (1932) - Greta Janson
Back Street (1932) - Francine
Virtue (1932) - Gert
Uptown New York (1932) - Patricia Smith
Treason (1933) - Joan Randall
From Hell to Heaven (1933) - Winnie Lloyd
Private Jones (1933) - Helen Jones
Out All Night (1933) - Kate
Terror Aboard (1933) - Lili Kingston
The Little Giant (1933) - Edith Merriam
The Girl in 419 (1933) - Nurse Irene Blaine
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) - Goldie West
Don't Bet on Love (1933) - Goldie Williams
Too Much Harmony (1933) - Lilyan
Hold the Press (1933) - Edith White
Murder on the Campus (1933) - Lillian Voyne
Twin Husbands (1933) - Chloe Werrenden
Bombay Mail (1934) - Beatrice Jones aka Sonia Smeganoff
I Like It That Way (1934) - Peggy
Sisters Under the Skin (1934) - Gilda Gordon
The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934) - Betty Lane
One Is Guilty (1934) - Sally Grey
Green Eyes (1934) - Jean Kester
The Defense Rests (1934) - Mabel Wilson
His Greatest Gamble (1934) - Bernice Solon
Beyond the Law (1934) - Helen Glenn
Girl in Danger (1934) - Gloria Gale
Wednesday's Child (1934) - Louise
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934) - Anya Rosson
Public Opinion (1935) - Joan Nash
Circumstantial Evidence (1935) - Adrienne Grey
The People's Enemy (1935) - Ann Griffin
The Girl Who Came Back (1935) - Gilda Gillespie aka Mary Brown
The Public Menace (1935) - Mimi LaVerne
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935) - Sarah Briggs
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1902 births
1981 deaths
American film actresses
Actresses from Connecticut
20th-century American actresses
People from Naugatuck, Connecticut
People from Jacksonville Beach, Florida
American stage actresses
Western (genre) film actresses