Ann Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21,
1967) was an American film actress.
Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton,
Texas, she was a college student when her sister sent
a photograph of her to Paramount Studios. She subsequently
entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her
prize being a bit part in a Paramount film. She abandoned
college to pursue a career in Hollywood. She made
her film debut in 1934 in the film Search For Beauty,
and played uncredited bit parts in Paramount films
for the next two years. Paramount made little effort
to develop her talent, so she left, signing a contract
with Warner Brothers in 1936, and changing her name
to "Ann Sheridan".
Sheridan's career prospects began
to improve. Tagged The Oomph Girl, Sheridan had become
a popular pin-up girl by the early forties.
She received substantial roles and
positive reaction from critics and moviegoers in such
films as Angels With Dirty Faces (1938), opposite
James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart), Dodge City (1939),
opposite Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland), Torrid
Zone and They Drive by Night (both 1940), The Man
Who Came To Dinner (1942), opposite Bette Davis),
and Kings Row (1942, where she received top billing
playing opposite Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, and
Betty Field). Despite these successes, her career
began to decline. Her role in I Was A Male War Bride
(1949) gave her another success, but by the fifties,
she was struggling to find work and her film roles
were sporadic.
Sheridan appeared in the television
soap opera Another World during the mid-sixties, then
started a role in the television series Pistols 'n'
Petticoats.However, she became ill during the filming
of its first season, and died from esophageal and
liver cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age
of 51.Sheridan had been married four times, including
a marriage lasting one year to fellow Warners actor,
George Brent, but had no children.On her passing in
1967, Ann Sheridan was cremated, her ashes stored
in the vault at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory
in Los Angeles.For her contribution to the motion
picture industry, Ann Sheridan has a star on the Hollywood
Walk Of Fame at 7024 Hollywood Boulevard.
Filmography
Search for Beauty (1934)
Bolero (1934)
Come on Marines (1934)
Murder at the Vanities (1934)
Shoot the Works (1934)
Kiss and Make Up (1934)
The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
You Belong to Me (1934)
Wagon Wheels (1934)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1934)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
Ready for Love (1934)
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934) (short subject)
Behold My Wife (1934)
Limehouse Blues (1934)
Enter Madame (1935)
One Hour Late (1935)
Home on the Range (1935)
Rumba (1935)
Car 99 (1935)
Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935)
Mississippi (1935)
The Red Blood of Courage (1935)
The Glass Key (1935)
The Crusades (1935)
Hollywood Extra Girl (1935) (short subject)
Fighting Youth (1935)
Sing Me a Love Song (1937) (scenes deleted)
Black Legion (1937)
The Great O'Malley (1937)
San Quentin (1937)
Wine, Women, and Horses (1937)
The Footloose Heiress (1937)
Alcatraz Island (1937)
She Loved a Fireman (1937)
The Patient in Room 13 (1938)
Out Where the Stars Begin (1938) (short subject)
Mystery House (1938)
Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938)
Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)
Letter of Introduction (1938)
Broadway Musketeers (1938)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
Dodge City (1939)
Naughty But Nice (1939)
Winter Carnival (1939)
Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Castle on the Hudson (1940)
It All Came True (1940)
Torrid Zone (1940)
They Drive by Night (1940)
City for Conquest (1940)
Honeymoon for Three (1941)
Navy Blues (1941)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
Kings Row (1942)
Juke Girl (1942)
Wings for the Eagle (1942)
George Washington Slept Here (1942)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Shine On, Harvest Moon (1944)
The Doughgirls (1944)
One More Tomorrow (1946)
Nora Prentiss (1947)
The Unfaithful (1947)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Silver River (1948)
Good Sam (1948)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Stella (1950)
Woman on the Run (1950) (also co-producer)
Steel Town (1952)
Just Across the Street (1952)
Take Me to Town (1953)
Appointment in Honduras (1953)
Come Next Spring (1956)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Woman and the Hunter (1957)
The Far Out West (1967)
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