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By this time, Fox Pictures had become 20th Century Fox and Shirley was making four films a year for the company, while also working with other studios like Paramount Pictures.
Shirley continued acting throughout the 1930s and 1940s, doing radio as well as film, though by the later years her popularity had decreased and she moved to MGM, but was released from her contract after one film.
She had roles in Fort Apache with John Wayne and Henry Fonda but retired from acting on December 16, 1950, age 22-years-old.
Shirley had married in 1945, aged 17, and had a daughter, but they were divorced by 1949 before she left acting.
The son of Ruthenian (Rusyn) immigrants from what is now eastern Slovakia, Warhol graduated in 1949 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Pittsburgh, with a degree in pictorial design. He then went to New York City, where he worked as a commercial illustrator for about a decade.
Warhol began painting in the late 1950s and received sudden notoriety in 1962, when he exhibited paintings of Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and wooden replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes. By 1963 he was mass-producing these purposely banal images of consumer goods by means of photographic silkscreen prints, and he then began printing endless variations of portraits of celebrities in garish colours. The silkscreen technique was ideally suited to Warhol, for the repeated image was reduced to an insipid and dehumanized cultural icon that reflected both the supposed emptiness of American material culture and the artist’s emotional noninvolvement with the practic