Shirley Olivia Mills[citation needed] (April 8, 1926 – March 31, 2010) was an American actress.

[1] She played the roles of the youngest daughter in The Grapes of Wrath and the title character in Child Bride.

Born on April 8, 1926, in Tacoma, Washington,[1] Mills started her career as a child dancer, and later appeared in films such as Child Bride (1938[a]) at the age of 12, The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and the Shirley Temple film Young People (1940).

[citation needed] She stopped making films in her early twenties but was later a pioneer in selling data-processing services in the 1960s, becoming the first female president of the Data Processing Management Association in Los Angeles and later vice president of marketing and public relations for Management Applied Programming, a major data processing center, for which she started a division for nonprofit organizations.

[citation needed] Mills died from complications of pneumonia in Arcadia, California, on March 31, 2010.