Anne was born in Paris, Kentucky on August 27th, 1917, daughter of the late Walter Henderson Shropshire and Virginia Kenney Smith Shropshire. Anne was a retired actress, who used her family name professionally. She grew up in Bourbon County, Kentucky and graduated from Paris High School in 1935, afterwards from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She earned a Masters Degree from the University of Kentucky's English Department.
