There are a number of differences between them to note, eg Shirley T could sing & dance, she seems to have been happier doing the films she was in, & she had a family too. Anne however was “forced to go into the profession & denied a normal childhood by a too ambitious mother”, Mimi. Though she did extremely well in material terms, other aspects of her life were not quite so good.

Shirley T had a successful life after films, as did Anne, but she took a different route. Shirley T found happiness with her 2nd husband but Anne may have lost the man she loved by the end of 1936. She married 3 times but walked out on the first 2, finding in her 3rd, Charles Lederer, a good man who provided very well for her, eg a property in Malibu, & a son, Daniel. (She had a daughter, Julie, by her first husband).

Anne’s childhood, under the name of Dawn O’Day, was sometimes spent trying to live on $10 a week between herself & her mother. One last point: soon after Anne turned 17, in April 1936, the courts, at the request of Mimi, appointed an alternate mother for her!, something Shirley T never had to cope with.

I have a DDS degree. I have been practicing for 7 years. But I would love to vacate this orb for greener(or whatever) pastures.

TAO if you are listening, just say the word.

Juliette.