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| Also Known As: | Clara Lou Sheridan, Gail Sheridan, Clara Lou Sheridan | Died: | January 21, 1967 |
| Born: | February 21, 1915 | Cause of Death: | cancer |
| Birth Place: | Denton, Texas, USA | Profession: | actor |
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Winner of a 1933 beauty contest who was rewarded with a bit parts in several Paramount features before signing in 1936 with Warner Bros. Once there her smart, no-nonsense persona was put to good use in a number of crime melodramas, especially "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938) and "They Drive by Night" (1940). Dubbed the "oomph girl", Sheridan made her mark in the haunting small town saga, "Kings Row" (1942), and continued to showcase her talent in comedies, dramas, and occasional musicals through the mid-1950s. Among Sheridan's best remembered films are "Torrid Zone" (1940), one of the efforts which clinched her stardom and which she blithely stole from James Cagney and Pat O'Brien with her nifty wisecracking. She also performed admirably in "I Was a Male War Bride" (1949), in which she coped with the sight of Cary Grant in drag, and in "Come Next Spring" (1956), an appealing rural period saga. She was subsequently known her roles on the TV series, "Another World" and "Pistols and Petticoats." Married to actors Edward Norris, George Brent and Scott McKay.
Winner of a 1933 beauty contest who was rewarded with a bit parts in several Paramount features before signing in 1936 with Warner Bros. Once there her smart, no-nonsense persona was put to good use in a number of crime melodramas, especially "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938) and "They Drive by Night" (1940). Dubbed the "oomph girl", Sheridan made her mark in the haunting small town saga, "Kings Row" (1942), and continued to showcase her talent in comedies, dramas, and occasional musicals through the mid-1950s. Among Sheridan's best remembered films are "Torrid Zone" (1940), one of the efforts which clinched her stardom and which she blithely stole from James Cagney and Pat O'Brien with her nifty wisecracking. She also performed admirably in "I Was a Male War Bride" (1949), in which she coped with the sight of Cary Grant in drag, and in "Come Next Spring" (1956), an appealing rural period saga. She was subsequently known her roles on the TV series, "Another World" and "Pistols and Petticoats." Married to actors Edward Norris, George Brent and Scott McKay.
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Ann Sheridan was only known by two names...Clara Lou Sheridan and Ann Sheridan. She never went by Gail Sheridan nor Anne Sheridan. She changed her name from Clara Lou to Ann at the behest of the studio who thought that Clara Lou was too long for the marquee. She changed it to Ann because, at the time, she was performing in a WB theater production of "The Milky Way" and the part she played was "Ann". This is per an interview with Ray Hagen in "Screen Facts" magazine, 1965.
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