Ann Sheridan


Actor
Ann Sheridan

About

Also Known As
Clara Lou Sheridan, Gail Sheridan
Birth Place
Denton, Texas, USA
Born
February 21, 1915
Died
January 21, 1967
Cause of Death
Cancer

Biography

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 reject...

Photos & Videos

They Drive by Night - Movie Posters
George Washington Slept Here - Lobby Cards
Kings Row - Movie Poster

Family & Companions

Edward Norris
Husband
Actor.
George Brent
Husband
Actor. Married c. January 1942.
Scott McKay
Husband
Actor. Survived her.

Biography

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.

Ann Sheridan was born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, TX on Feb. 21, 1915. The last of five surviving children born to George W. Sheridan, a garage mechanic and direct descendant of Union general Philip Henry Sheridan, and the former Lula Stewart Warren, Sheridan grew up a tomboy, riding horses, playing touch football, and standing up to bully boys twice her size. After completing her primary education at Robert E. Lee Grade School and Denton Junior High School, she enrolled in North Texas State Teachers College with a mind toward studying art. Growing frustrated with the disciplines required of fine art, Sheridan drifted towards campus dramatics and participated in the school band, dreaming of traveling to New York City to become a Broadway chorus dancer. In 1932, Sheridan's older sister Kitty enrolled the 17-year-old in a national contest sponsored by Paramount Pictures in Hollywood as publicity for the upcoming film "Search for Beauty" (1934). Sheridan was one of 30 finalists invited to Hollywood for the privilege of a screen test.

Despite pudgy cheeks, unmanageable hair, and a gap-tooth smile, Sheridan was offered a six-month contract with Paramount, earning a then-admirable $50 a week. After her 10-second bit as a pageant contestant in "Search for Beauty," Sheridan was given little to do on the Paramount backlot, apart from taking drama lessons from the studio's resident coach Nina Mousie, and appearing in plays staged for the exclusive pleasure of the studio front office. While appearing as a character named Ann in the Harry Clork-Lynn Root comedy "The Milky Way," Sheridan was advised by her handlers at Paramount to change her name so that it might fit more comfortably on a marquee. Adopting her character's name, Clara Lou Sheridan became Ann Sheridan. A friendship with director Mitchell Leisen led to a featured role, as a stenographer driven by snobbery to suicide, in "Behold My Wife!" (1934), which allowed the young hopeful to break from the purgatory of extra work and doubling that her been her lot as a Paramount contract player.

Sheridan enjoyed her first lead role in Charles Barton's "Car 99" (1935), as rookie cop Fred MacMurray's telephone operator girlfriend. She was paired with cowboy star Randolph Scott for Barton's "Rocky Mountain Mystery" (1935) but was bumped back to bits, playing a nurse who bandages George Raft in "The Glass Key" (1935) and a Saracen slave in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Crusades" (1935). While she was on loan to Ambassador Pictures for "Red Blood of Courage" (1935), Paramount dropped Sheridan's option. She made one film for Universal, playing a spoiled rich girl who flirts with campus radicalism in Hamilton McFadden's college comedy "Fighting Youth" (1935), before finding her way to Warner Brothers, her home base until 1948. Though her scenes were cut from Ray Enright's musical comedy "Sing Me a Love Song" (1936), she found work in Warners' steady output of crime films, appearing in prominent roles in Archie Mayo's "Black Legion" (1937), Lloyd Bacon's "San Quentin" (1937) and Michael Curtiz's "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938) alongside fellow contract player Humphrey Bogart. Between 1936 and 1938, Sheridan was married to B-movie actor Edward Norris.

In 1939, Sheridan became the focus of an unusual Warners publicity stunt, inspired by a comment made by gossip columnist Walter Winchell that Sheridan, as gangster James Cagney's social worker girlfriend in "Angels with Dirty Faces," had "umph." Recoining the phrase slightly, the studio assembled a team of 13 judges - including choreography Busby Berkeley, designer Orry-Kelly, photographer George Hurrell, producer-director Earl Carroll, and bandleader-actor Rudy Vallee - charged with naming "America's Oomph Girl." Following a highly-publicized but patently rigged competition, Sheridan was awarded the honor, beating out (so the Warners publicity mill had moviegoers believing) Alice Faye, Carole Lombard, Hedy Lamarr and Marlene Dietrich. Hurrell's elegant portraits of the titian-tressed actress helped put Sheridan across to the public, creating curiosity and sensation where there had once been disinterest. As a result, Sheridan would soon become one of the most popular pin-ups of the Forties, but she always derided her nickname as the sound an old man makes when bending over to tie his shoes.

Interest in Sheridan's crowning as the Oomph Girl had a retroactive effect on several movies in which she had already appeared. Though she played small roles in both, Sheridan received preferential placement on the posters for Busby Berkeley's "They Made Me a Criminal" (1939) and Michael Curtiz's Errol Flynn starrer "Dodge City" (1939). Ill at ease at having achieved success through crass studio duplicity, Sheridan was given a backlot pep talk by actor Paul Muni, who advised her to use the exposure from the stunt for the betterment of her career. She was selected by producer Mark Hellinger to star in Lewis Seiler's "It All Came True" (1940), a role turned down by Bette Davis. Cast as a down-at-heel nightclub singer given a second chance at stardom when mobster Humphrey Bogart turns her boarding house into a nightclub, Sheridan charmed audiences and sang two songs. Now boasting name recognition with moviegoers, Sheridan enjoyed an elevated status in her subsequent film assignments and was, like teen starlets Bonita Granville and Deanna Durbin, made the heroine sleuth of her own mystery novel, marketed by the Whitman Publishing Company for young readers.

Cast again opposite George Raft and Humphrey Bogart in Raoul Walsh's "They Drive By Night" (1940), Sheridan played the good girl to Ida Lupino's bad egg. On the lighter side, she donned furs and jewels to play a conniving actress in William Keighley's "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1942), winding up packed inside a mummy's case for her troubles and shipped to Nova Scotia, and teamed with Jack Benny for Keighley's "George Washington Slept Here" (1942), with the pair cast as city dwellers who buy a tumbledown Pennsylvania farm house. Sheridan enjoyed top billing as the tomboy heroine of Sam Wood's "King's Row" (1942), an adaptation of the 1940 novel by Harry Bellaman, which made a star of Sheridan's fellow Warners contract player Ronald Reagan. Though the studio publicity department announced Sheridan and Reagan as the proposed stars of the upcoming "Casablanca" (1942), the actors were never seriously considered for the roles that went ultimately to Ingrid Berman and Humphrey Bogart.

In 1942, Sheridan married actor George Brent, her co-star in Lloyd Bacon's "Honeymoon for Three" (1941), a union that lasted just one year. The actress' star turn in "Shine on Harvest Moon" (1944), a biopic of vaudeville singer Nora Bayes, was pitched by Warners as "Sheridandy" though the actress loathed the picture, eager to expand into edgier material and more demanding roles. Placed on suspension for refusing assignments after the troubled production of "One More Tomorrow" (1946), Sheridan sat out most of 1946 before a writer's strike and the looming expiration of her Warners contract left her with bargaining leverage. The result was a six-picture deal for which Sheridan was given script approval and enjoyed an uptake in her asking price. The first film out of the gate under these new terms was Vincent Sherman's "Nora Prentiss" (1947), a noir-flavored woman's picture recounting the tragic love affair of Sheridan's slinky nightclub singer and Kent Smith's guilt-wracked surgeon, who fakes his own death as the start of an ill-advised midlife do-over.

Sheridan reteamed with Sherman for "The Unfaithful" (1948), which found her charged with murder for the fatal stabbing of her ex-lover. She finished out her Warners contract with an uncredited bit as a Mexican prostitute in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948), done as a favor for director John Huston, and by playing a comely mine owner in "Silver River" (1948) opposite Errol Flynn. As a free agent, Sheridan made few remarkable films but many satisfying ones. Among these was Howard Hawks' "I Was a Male War Bride" (1949) at Fox, in which she and co-star Cary Grant played American and French allies who fall in love while on a mission and employ the War Bride Act in order to remain together in the United States. Sheridan had the title role in Claude Binyon's "Stella" (1950), as an upwardly mobile woman duped into helping her hayseed relatives cover up an accidental death, and received top billing for George Sherman's "Steel Town" (1952), a class conscious melodrama co-starring John Lund and Howard Duff. She took a producer's role for Norman Foster's "Woman on the Run" (1950), in addition to headlining as a San Francisco housewife who works with newspaper reporter Dennis O'Keefe to track down her errant husband, material witness to a gangland murder.

Less in demand as she approached middle age, Sheridan shifted the focus of her labor to live television, appearing in episodes of such anthology series as "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" (CBS, 1951-59), "Playhouse 90" (CBS, 1956-1961) and "The Ford Television Theater" (NBC, 1952-57). In 1965, the year she turned 50, she joined the ranks of fading Hollywood stars agreeing to lend their big screen credibility to the medium of daytime drama and appeared in the second season of the NBC soap opera "Another World" (1964-1999). Just as discriminating in the downward arc of her career as she had been at its apex, Sheridan passed on the part of a French brothel owner in Norman Jewison's "The Art of Love" (1965), a role that went instead to Ethel Merman. In 1966, she married actor Scott McKay. She capped her career as the star of the Western sitcom "Pistols 'n' Petticoats" (CBS, 1966-67). Diagnosed during the first (and only) season with esophageal cancer, Ann Sheridan died at age 51 on Jan. 21, 1967.

by Richard Harland Smith

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

The Woman And The Hunter (1957)
Come Next Spring (1956)
Bess Ballot
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Amanda [Penrose]
Take Me to Town (1953)
Vermilion O'Toole [also known as May Madison]
Appointment in Honduras (1953)
Sylvia Sheppard
Steel Town (1952)
"Red" McNamara
Just Across the Street (1952)
Henrietta Smith
Stella (1950)
Stella Bevins
Woman on the Run (1950)
Eleanor Johnson
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Lt. Catherine Gates
Good Sam (1948)
Lu Clayton
Silver River (1948)
Georgia Moore
Nora Prentiss (1947)
Nora Prentiss
The Unfaithful (1947)
Chris Hunter
One More Tomorrow (1946)
Christie Sage
The Doughgirls (1944)
Edna Cadman
Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
Nora Bayes
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Karen Stensgard
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Herself
Wings for the Eagle (1942)
Roma Maple
Kings Row (1942)
Randy Monaghan
Juke Girl (1942)
Lola Mears
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
Lorraine Sheldon
George Washington Slept Here (1942)
Connie Fuller
Honeymoon for Three (1941)
Anne Rogers
Navy Blues (1941)
Margie Jordan
It All Came True (1940)
Sarah Jane Ryan
Castle on the Hudson (1940)
Kay [Manners]
City for Conquest (1940)
Peggy Nash
They Drive by Night (1940)
Cassie Hartley
Torrid Zone (1940)
Lee Donley
Dodge City (1939)
Ruby Gilman
Naughty but Nice (1939)
Zelda Manion
Winter Carnival (1939)
Jill Baxter
The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Joy Ryan
Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
Frankie Merrick
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
Goldie
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Laury Ferguson
Broadway Musketeers (1938)
Fay Reynolds
Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)
Maxine Chadwick
The Patient in Room 18 (1938)
Sarah Keate
Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938)
Madge Perry
Mystery House (1938)
Sarah Keate
Letter of Introduction (1938)
Lydia Hoyt
The Great O'Malley (1937)
Judy Nolan
Black Legion (1937)
Betty Grogan
San Quentin (1937)
May [Kennedy, also known as Mae De Villiers]
Alcatraz Island (1937)
Flo Allen
She Loved a Fireman (1937)
Margie Shannon
The Footloose Heiress (1937)
Kay Allyn
Wine, Women and Horses (1937)
Valerie
Sing Me a Love Song (1937)
Lola Parker
Hills of Old Wyoming (1937)
Alice Hutchins
The Plainsman (1937)
Girl
Florida Special (1936)
F-Man (1936)
Julie
College Holiday (1936)
Student
Three Married Men (1936)
Rose Cary
Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936)
Mary Saunders
The Glass Key (1935)
Nurse
Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935)
Rita Ballard
Fighting Youth (1935)
Carol Arlington
Car 99 (1935)
Mary Adams
Red Blood of Courage (1935)
Beth Henry
Mississippi (1935)
Schoolgirl
The Crusades (1935)
Christian girl
Home on the Range (1934)
Elsie Brownly
Behold My Wife! (1934)
Mary White
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
Adele
You Belong to Me (1934)
First girl
The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)
Ready for Love (1934)
Villager
Come On Marines! (1934)
Loretta
Murder at the Vanities (1934)
Lou

Cast (Short)

Out Where the Stars Begin (1938)
Herself

Visual Effects (Short)

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)
Model

Misc. Crew (Short)

Let's Sing Grandfather's Favorites (1948)
Archival Footage

Life Events

1933

Winner of "Search for Beauty" contest

1934

Screen debut, "Search for Beauty"

1935

Began using the name Ann Sheridan

1936

Signed with Warner Brothers

1938

Breakthrough role, "Angels with Dirty Faces", as the female lead in the hit gangster drama starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien

1940

Became a full-fledged star of "A" budget pictures

1948

Made an unbilled cameo as a streetwalker in John Huston's "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

1948

Last film for Warner Brothers, "Silver River", starring opposite Errol Flynn

1956

Last American films, "Come Next Spring" and "The Opposite Sex"

1957

Last film, "Woman and the Hunter", made in England

1966

Starred as Henriette "Hank" Hanks on the CBS sitcom, "Pistols and Petticoats"

Photo Collections

They Drive by Night - Movie Posters
Here are a few American movie posters for They Drive by Night (1940). Pictured are the 1940 1-sheet, a re-issue 1-sheet, and an original lobby card.
George Washington Slept Here - Lobby Cards
Here are several Lobby Cards from George Washington Slept Here (1942), starring Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.
Kings Row - Movie Poster
Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for Warner Bros' Kings Row (1942), starring Robert Cummings, Ann Sheridan, and Ronald Reagan. One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.
City for Conquest - Behind-the-Scenes Still
Here is a photo taken behind-the-scenes during production of Warner Bros' City for Conquest (1940), starring Ann Sheridan and directed by Anatole Litvak.
Nora Prentiss - Lobby Card Set
Here is a set of Lobby Cards from Warner Bros' Nora Prentiss (1947), starring Ann Sheridan. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.
Silver River - Title Lobby Card
Here is the Title Lobby Card from Silver River (1948). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.
The Man Who Came to Dinner - Scene Stills
Here are a few scene stills from The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), starring Bette Davis and Monty Woolley.
It All Came True - Ann Sheridan Publicity Still
Here is a still of Ann Sheridan, taken to help publicize Warner Bros' It All Came True (1940). Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.
They Drive by Night - Lobby Card Set
Here is a set of Lobby Cards from Warner Bros' They Drive by Night (1940), starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, and Ida Lupino. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.
The Opposite Sex - Movie Poster
Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for MGM's The Opposite Sex (1956). One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.
They Made Me a Criminal - Movie Posters
Here are a variety of original-release movie posters from Warner Bros' They Made Me a Criminal (1939), starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, and the Dead End Kids.
Kings Row - Publicity Still
Here is a photo taken to help publicize Warner Bros' Kings Row (1942), starring Robert Cummings, Ann Sheridan, and Ronald Reagan. Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.
Dodge City - Movie Posters
Here is a group of American movie posters from Dodge City (1939), starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Ann Sheridan.
Angels with Dirty Faces - Publicity Stills
Here are a few Publicity Stills from Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.
San Quentin (1937) - Movie Poster
Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for San Quentin (1937). One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

Videos

Movie Clip

Black Legion (1936) — (Movie Clip) How’d You Like The Picture Betty (Ann Sheridan) after the movies steamrolls factory worker Ed (Dick Foran) into the proposal for which she’s been angling, at the soda shop, Pat C. Flick the proprietor Nick, and Helen Flint as the brassy widow at the counter, in the progressive Warner Bros. melodrama Black Legion, 1937.
City For Conquest (1940) -- (Movie Clip) We Just Look That Way At a neighborhood send-off party, boxer Danny (James Cagney) and dancer Peggy (Ann Sheridan) before a tearful goodbye, in Warner Bros. City For Conquest, 1940.
City For Conquest (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Your Cup Or My Bean With first-time dance partner Murray (Anthony Quinn), Peggy (Ann Sheridan) wins her first contest, celebrations going not so well with boyfriend Danny (James Cagney) and pals (Frank McHugh, George Tobias), in City For Conquest, 1940.
Nora Prentiss (1947) -- (Movie Clip) The Little Woman's Away Finishing her number, night club singer Ann Sheridan (title character), with her straight-laced new physician Talbott (Kent Smith), grows skeptical, then apologetic, introducing her boss (Robert Alda), then sampling a tune by M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl, in Nora Prentiss, 1947.
Nora Prentiss (1947) -- (Movie Clip) There's A Certain Dignity San Francisco Dr. Talbott (Kent Smith), established as an upright family man and model professional, rebukes his partner in practice (Bruce Bennett) then, working late, meets Ann Sheridan, the title character, quite by chance, in Vincent Sherman’s Nora Prentiss, 1947.
Nora Prentiss (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Have To Dance Before an evening out, mild Dr. Talbot (Kent Smith) expresses frustration to his wife (Rosemary DeCamp) then, working on the weekend, is surprised when singer Ann Sheridan (title character), whom he treated after a minor accident, stops by to consult, in Nora Prentiss,1947.
Woman On The Run (1950) -- (Movie Clip) That's His Burlesque Period San Francisco detective Ferris (Robert Keith, with aide Frank Jenks) debriefing Eleanor Johnson (Ann Sheridan), the not-devoted wife of artist Frank, who witnessed a murder that night, then disappeared, in the newly-restored Woman On The Run, 1950.
Woman On The Run (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Why Don't You Drop Dead? Eleanor (Ann Sheridan) waits for the cops to leave her San Francisco apartment before she can go look for her artist husband, whom she doesn’t much like, who fled after witnessing a murder, but reporter Leggett (Dennis O’Keefe) intervenes, in Woman On The Run, 1950.
Woman On The Run (1950) -- (Movie Clip) There's Been A Murder Opening credits establishing San Francisco, then Ross Elliott as a guy walking his dog, and Thomas P. Dillon as a guy getting murdered, opening Woman On The Run, 1950, discovered and restored largely through the efforts of TCM’s Film Noir expert Eddie Muller.
Woman On The Run (1950) -- (Movie Clip) It's Our First Murder Eleanor (Ann Sheridan), hunting her semi-estranged husband who skedaddled after witnessing a murder, leaves the San Francisco store where he worked, where she hoped to find a letter, a cop (Robert Keith) and reporter Leggett (Dennis O’Keefe) on her trail, in Woman On The Run, 1950.
I Was A Male War Bride (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Such A Dull Story Cary Grant as French officer Rocard in post-war Germany, at the American HQ approaches Lt. Gates (Ann Sheridan), with whom he evidently has a history, and together they meet Lt. Billings (Randy Stuart), opening Howard Hawks I Was A Male War Bride, 1949.
I Was A Male War Bride (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Grab An Oar! Making their way across post-war Germany on an assignment, French officer Rocard (Cary Grant), in the sidecar because only American WAC Catherine (Ann Sheridan), an ex-girlfriend, is authorized to drive, in Howard Hawks' I Was A Male War Bride, 1949.

Trailer

Navy Blues (1941) - (Original Trailer) Look for a young Jackie Gleason with lots of Warners' best comedians in the service comedy Navy Blues (1941).
Wings for The Eagle - (Original Trailer) A draft dodger (Dennis Morgan) rediscovers his patriotism working at an aircraft factory in Wings for The Eagle (1942).
Naughty But Nice - (Original Trailer) A college professor (Dick Powell) turns songwriter and falls for his lyricist in Naughty But Nice (1939) co-starring Ann Sheridan.
Footloose Heiress, The - (Original Trailer) Ann Sheridan cuts footloose as The Footloose Heiress (1937) when she elopes with someone she hardly knows.
Cowboy from Brooklyn, The - (Original Trailer) A singing cowboy (Dick Powell) turns out to be a tenderfoot. Co-starring Pat O'Brien, directed by Lloyd Bacon.
Castle on the Hudson - (Original Trailer) A hardened crook (John Garfield) vs. a reform-minded warden in a remake of 20,000 Years In Sing Sing, Castle on the Hudson (1940).
Angels Wash Their Faces, The -- (Original Trailer) Crusading district attorney Ronald Reagan helps the Dead End Kids when one of them is accused of arson.
Sing Me A Love Song - (Original Trailer) A playboy (James Melton) turns over a new leaf and starts from the bottom of the family business in Sing Me A Love Song (1937).
Silver River - (Original Trailer) A ruthless gambler's rise to power is cut short by character flaws in Silver River (1948) starring Errol Flynn.
San Quentin (1937) - (Original Trailer) A convict's sister falls for the captain of the prison guards in San Quentin (1937), starring Pat O'Brien & Humphrey Bogart.
Alcatraz Island - (Re-issue Trailer) A prison inmate is framed for killing a con who once tried to kidnap his daughter in Alcatraz Island (1937) starring Ann Sheridan and George E. Stone.
Little Miss Thoroughbred - (Original Trailer) An orphan searching for her father softens a gangster's heart in Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938).

Companions

Edward Norris
Husband
Actor.
George Brent
Husband
Actor. Married c. January 1942.
Scott McKay
Husband
Actor. Survived her.

Bibliography