Shirley Valentine (film) Shirley Valentine (film) Shirley Valentine is an award-winning 1989 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay by Willy Russell is based on his 1986 one-character play of the same title, which follows middle aged Shirley Valentine in an unexpected discovery of herself, and rekindling of her childhood dreams and youthful love of life. Pauline Collins reprises the titular lead role as middle-aged housewife Shirley, which she had previously played in the stage production in London's West End and on Broadway, and Tom Conti plays Costas Dimitriades, the owner of a Greek tavern with whom she has a
Shirley Mills Grapes of Wrath" (1940), and the Shirley Temple film "Young People" (1940). She stopped making films in her early twenties, and went on to be a singer and a data processing salesperson. Mills married Mel Hanson, a minister, in 1977 who died in 1995; they had no children. Mills died in Arcadia, California, on March 31, 2010, eight days before her 84th birthday, from complications of pneumonia. Shirley Mills Shirley Olivia Mills (April 8, 1926 – March 31, 2010) was an American actress. She played the roles of the youngest daughter in "The Grapes of Wrath" and the title character