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- Birth nameShirley Beatrice Kassler
- Born in New York, teenage Shirley Ulmer came out to the movie capital for the first time in the early 1930s, after her banker-father was wiped out in the Crash. While her dad tried to make a new start in California, Shirley met picture people and began working as a script supervisor. She was married to independent producer Max Alexander when she met and instantly fell in love with director Edgar G. Ulmer, eventually divorcing Alexander--nephew of Universal president Carl Laemmle. Hollywood outcasts, Ulmer and his new missus Shirley were subsequently forced to work in the East, on Poverty Row and at other small indie studios, where the indomitable Ulmer forged a remarkable career as a master of minimalism. Shirley is also a writer of screenplays, teleplays (The Lone Ranger (1949), Batman (1966), S.W.A.T. (1975), CHiPs (1977), more) and the book "The Role of Script Supervision in Film and Television"; in recent years, she and daughter Arianne have maintained a high profile keeping alive the memory of Ulmer and his highly personal films. They are currently collaborating on the documentary "The Edgar G. Ulmer Story."- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>
- Shirley Ulmer acted as script supervisor on nearly all of her director-husband Edgar G. Ulmer's films from 1934 on. She also wrote screenplays and a novel, "Sinners in Sight" (Empire Publishing, 1934). Her book "Script Supervisor's Role in Film and TV" was published by Hastings House and is distributed by Eagle, a division of Time Warner. For over 20 years, she taught classes in script supervision and spoke at the many tributes and retrospective of Edgar G. Ulmer.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpousesEdgar G. Ulmer(March 18, 1936 - September 30, 1972) (his death, 1 child)Max Alexander(August 12, 1933 - 1936) (divorced)
- [on making Babes in Bagdad (1952) in Spain] . . . the girls they had gotten together for him [director Edgar G. Ulmer] were supposed to be harem girls, beautiful girls--and they WERE. But most of them had hair on their chests! And long hair under their arms and all over their legs. And they were infuriated when Edgar made them shave! They thought they'd lost all their sex appeal--back then, men LIKED the hairy girls over there!
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