Ann Sheridan
She was Warner Brothers' "Oomph Girl" and a popular WWII pin-up but Ann Sheridan fought to be taken seriously in Hollywood. After a fruitless start at Paramount, the ravishing redhead allowed the Warners publicity mill to make her an overnight sensation, channeling the buzz to barter for better roles. She enjoyed name-above-the-title status for "It All Came True" (1940), in a role rejected by Bette Davis, then teamed with Davis for the screwball classic "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1942), and more than held her own opposite studio mates George Raft and Humphrey Bogart in "They Drive By Night" (1940). It was as the small town heroine of "King's Row" (1942) opposite Ronald Reagan, that Sheridan became a bone fide star, but her tenure at Warners was punctuated by suspensions for turning down roles. Prior to breaking with the studio in 1948, she scored as a Frisco chanteuse who compels doctor Kent Smith to fake his own death in the noir sleeper "Nora Prentiss" (1947). As a free agent, Sheridan enjoyed one of her better roles opposite Cary Grant in "I Was a Male War Bride" (1949) but a downturn in her industry stock drove the aging actress to television. She capped her 30-year career as the star of the CBS western sitcom "Pistols 'n' Petticoats" (1966-67) but was felled by cancer before the end of the first season. Gone at 51, Ann Sheridan escaped in death the humiliating career twilights of aging rivals Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, remaining in the eyes of movie lovers a quick-witted comedienne and a sensuous dramatic actress rolled into one unforgettable package.
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Ann Sheridan
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Far Out West | Henrietta "Hank" Hanks (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Woman and the Hunter | Laura Dodds (Character) | - | 1957 |
40% |
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The Opposite Sex | Amanda (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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Come Next Spring | Bess Ballot (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Appointment in Honduras | Sylvia Sheppard (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Take Me to Town |
Vermilion O'Toole/ |
- | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Steel Town | "Red" McNamara (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just Across the Street | Henrietta Smith (Character) | - | 1952 |
88% |
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Woman on the Run | Eleanor Johnson (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stella | Stella Bevans (Character) | - | 1950 |
76% |
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I Was a Male War Bride | Lt. Catherine Gates (Character) | - | 1949 |
60% |
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Good Sam | Lucille `'Lu'` Clayton (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
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Silver River | Georgia Moore (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
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The Unfaithful | Chris Hunter (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet |
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Nora Prentiss | Nora Prentiss (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One More Tomorrow | Christie Sage (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet |
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The Doughgirls | Edna Stokes Cadman (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet |
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Shine On, Harvest Moon | Nora Bayes (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet |
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Edge of Darkness | Karen Stensgard (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet |
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Juke Girl | Lola Mears (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet |
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George Washington Slept Here | Connie Fuller (Character) | - | 1942 |
100% |
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Kings Row | Randy Monaghan (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wings for the Eagle | Roma Maple (Character) | - | 1942 |
86% |
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The Man Who Came to Dinner | Lorraine Sheldon (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honeymoon for Three | Anne Rogers (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Navy Blues | Marge "Margie" Jordan (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet |
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It All Came True | Sarah Jane "Sal" Ryan (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet |
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Castle on the Hudson | Kay Manners (Character) | - | 1940 |
80% |
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City for Conquest | Peggy Nash (Character) | - | 1940 |
93% |
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They Drive by Night | Cassie Hartley (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet |
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Torrid Zone | Lee Donley (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Angels Wash Their Faces | Joy Ryan (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Indianapolis Speedway | "Frankie" Merrick (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winter Carnival | Jill Baxter (Character) | - | 1939 |
100% |
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Dodge City | Ruby Gilman (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet |
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They Made Me a Criminal | Goldie West (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Naughty, but Nice | Zelda Manion (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cowboy From Brooklyn | Maxine Chadwick (Character) | - | 1938 |
100% |
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Angels With Dirty Faces | Laury Ferguson (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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Letter of Introduction | Lydia Hoyt (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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Mystery House | Sarah Keate (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Patient in Room 18 | Sara Keate (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Miss Thoroughbred | Madge Perry Morgan (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Broadway Musketeers | Fay Reynolds (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wine, Women and Horses | Valerie (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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The Great O'Malley | Judy Nolan (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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San Quentin | May (Character) | - | 1937 |
100% |
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Black Legion | Betty Grogan (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She Loved a Fireman | Marjorie "Margie" Shannon (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alcatraz Island | Flo Allen (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Footloose Heiress | Kay Allyn (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Red Blood of Courage | Elizabeth Henry (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fighting Westerner | Rita Ballard (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fighting Youth | Carol Arlington (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Car 99 | Mary Adams (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Home on the Range | Singer (Character) | - | 1935 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pistols 'n' Petticoats | Henrietta Hanks (Character) | 1966-1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Mavis Grant (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Showcase 39 | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret |
Unknown (Character), Guest |
1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1952 |