Juanita Quigley

Juanita Quigley

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Juanita Quigley (24 June 1931 – 29 October 2017) was an American child actress in motion pictures of the 1930s and 1940s. She had a sister, Rita Quigley, who was also a child actress. Juanita Quigley was billed as "Baby Jane" in several early roles. Her screen debut was as Claudette Colbert's three-year-old daughter in Imitation of Life (1934). She went on to play featured parts in several films, including The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934) and was Jean Harlow's niece in Riffraff (1936). Quigley became a familiar face to moviegoers of the era, but major roles for children so young were few and she often played bits as well as featured roles. She was one of the most popular child stars of her day, and was Universal Pictures' youngest star in 1934. Quigley was briefly involved in the Our Gang film series. In 1940, she was the guest-starring lead in The New Pupil when cast as Sally, who briefly takes Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer away from Darla Hood. Two years later, she reprised the character in Going to Press (1942), the only time in the MGM era where the female lead was played by someone other than Darla Hood (who had recently left the series) or Janet Burston. Quigley acted alongside her older sister, Rita Quigley, in Whispering Footsteps (1943). Her last major role was in National Velvet (1944), in which she played Elizabeth Taylor's sister. Quigley made only a handful of small appearances after National Velvet, her last being in 1950. At the age of 20, in August 1951, she became a religious sister in the order of the Daughters of Mary and Joseph, teaching at Precious Blood Catholic School. After several years in her convent, she left the vocation and married. Inaccurate documentation exists that Juanita made an uncredited appearance as an extra in the locally filmed Porky's II: The Next Day. At the time of this filming, Juanita lived in Pennsylvania pursuing her post-convent career full-time. Juanita was retired and was an intensely private person with regard to her past. Most who knew her as a friend were unaware of her previous life as an actress. As of 2016, Juanita lived a peaceful retired life with her son and daughter-in-law in Massachusetts. Juanita Quigley died in Sudbury, MA, on 29 October 2017, aged 86.

  • Title: Juanita Quigley
  • Popularity: 1.141
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1931-06-24
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Baby Jane
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Juanita Quigley Movies

  • 1938
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    Having Wonderful Time

    Having Wonderful Time

    4.9 1938 HD

    Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.

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  • 1943
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    Whispering Footsteps

    Whispering Footsteps

    5.3 1943 HD

    An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.

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  • 1936
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    Born to Dance

    Born to Dance

    6.1 1936 HD

    On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established...

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    Straight from the Heart

    Straight from the Heart

    1 1935 HD

    In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little...

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    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    6.994 1934 HD

    A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...

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    Riffraff

    Riffraff

    5 1936 HD

    Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him...

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    The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

    The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

    6 1934 HD

    A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.

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  • 1943
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    Assignment in Brittany

    Assignment in Brittany

    6.6 1943 HD

    A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.

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  • 1944
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    The Lady and the Monster

    The Lady and the Monster

    5.8 1944 HD

    A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.

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    Hawaii Calls

    Hawaii Calls

    5.4 1938 HD

    After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with...

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  • 1941
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    Gangs Inc.

    Gangs Inc.

    5.2 1941 HD

    Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local...

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  • 1939
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    The Family Next Door

    The Family Next Door

    5.2 1939 HD

    Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her...

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    Woman Against Woman

    Woman Against Woman

    6.5 1938 HD

    A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

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  • 1942
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    A Yank at Eton

    A Yank at Eton

    6.2 1942 HD

    An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.

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  • 1936
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    The Devil-Doll

    The Devil-Doll

    6.8 1936 HD

    Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When...

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  • 1935
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    Alias Mary Dow

    Alias Mary Dow

    6.2 1935 HD

    A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.

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    Men with Wings

    Men with Wings

    6 1938 HD

    Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

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  • 1945
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    National Velvet

    National Velvet

    7.3 1945 HD

    Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter,...

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  • 1940
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    The Blue Bird

    The Blue Bird

    5.8 1940 HD

    An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of...

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  • 1939
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    Code of the Streets

    Code of the Streets

    7 1939 HD

    Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis,...

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  • 1940
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    Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!

    Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!

    5.7 1940 HD

    In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The...

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  • 1943
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    Happy Land

    Happy Land

    6.2 1943 HD

    An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he...

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  • 1938
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    That Certain Age

    That Certain Age

    5 1938 HD

    Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send...

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  • 1940
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    Cinderella's Feller

    Cinderella's Feller

    1 1940 HD

    The story of Cinderella with a children's cast.

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  • 1934
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    We're Rich Again

    We're Rich Again

    4 1934 HD

    A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

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  • 1940
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    The New Pupil

    The New Pupil

    6 1940 HD

    Spanky and Alfalfa both try to impress the new girl at school, much to Darla's dismay.

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  • 1950
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    Mystery Street

    Mystery Street

    6.7 1950 HD

    When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics,...

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  • 1942
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    The Vanishing Virginian

    The Vanishing Virginian

    6 1942 HD

    The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.

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  • 1938
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    The Devil's Party

    The Devil's Party

    5.5 1938 HD

    Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

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  • 1941
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    Bachelor Daddy

    Bachelor Daddy

    1 1941 HD

    The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.

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  • 1942
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    Going to Press

    Going to Press

    6 1942 HD

    The Our Gang kids are running their own newspaper and are determined to get the big scoop by learning the identity of the leader of a gang of bullies.

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