1. Clara Lou "Ann" Sheridan was an American actress and singer.
40 Facts About Ann Sheridan
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Ann Sheridan is best known for her roles in the films San Quentin with Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Dirty Faces with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night with George Raft and Bogart, City for Conquest with Cagney and Elia Kazan, The Man Who Came to Dinner with Bette Davis, Kings Row with Ronald Reagan, Nora Prentiss, and I Was a Male War Bride with Cary Grant.
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Clara Lou Sheridan was born in Denton, Texas, on February 21,1915, the youngest of five children of garage mechanic George W Sheridan and Lula Stewart.
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Ann Sheridan was active in dramatics at Denton High School and at North Texas State Teachers College.
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Ann Sheridan sang with the college's stage band and played basketball on the North Texas women's basketball team.
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Ann Sheridan continued with bit parts in Enter Madame with Elissa Landi and Cary Grant, Home on the Range with Randolph Scott and Evelyn Brent, and Rumba with George Raft and Carole Lombard, until her first lead role in Car 99, with Fred MacMurray.
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Ann Sheridan next had a support role as the romantic interest in Rocky Mountain Mystery, a Randolph Scott Western.
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Ann Sheridan then appeared in Mississippi with Bing Crosby and W C Fields, The Glass Key with George Raft in a brief speaking role for which she was billed as "Nurse" in the cast list at the end of the film, and The Crusades with Loretta Young.
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Ann Sheridan made Fighting Youth at Universal and then signed a contract with Warner Bros.
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Ann Sheridan was a lead in The Patient in Room 18 and its sequel Mystery House.
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Ann Sheridan was reunited with the Dead End Kids in They Made Me a Criminal starring John Garfield.
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Ann Sheridan was third-billed in the Western Dodge City, playing a saloon owner opposite Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.
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Ann Sheridan received as many as 250 marriage proposals from fans in a single week.
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Ann Sheridan reportedly loathed the sobriquet that made her a popular pin-up girl in the early 1940s.
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Ann Sheridan was top billed in Indianapolis Speedway with O'Brien and Angels Wash Their Faces with the Dead End Kids and Ronald Reagan.
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Ann Sheridan was with George Raft, Bogart and Ida Lupino in They Drive by Night, a smash-hit trucking melodrama.
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Ann Sheridan was back with Cagney for City for Conquest and then made Honeymoon for Three, a comedy with George Brent.
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Ann Sheridan did two lighter films: Navy Blues, a musical comedy, and The Man Who Came to Dinner with Bette Davis, wherein she played a character modeled on Gertrude Lawrence.
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Ann Sheridan then made Kings Row, in which she received top billing playing opposite Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, and Betty Field.
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Ann Sheridan was in the war film Wings for the Eagle and made a comedy with Jack Benny, George Washington Slept Here.
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Ann Sheridan played a Norwegian resistance fighter in Edge of Darkness with Errol Flynn and was one of the many Warner Bros.
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Ann Sheridan was the heroine of a novel, Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx, written by Kathryn Heisenfelt and published by Whitman Publishing Company in 1943.
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Ann Sheridan was given the lead in the musical Shine On, Harvest Moon, playing Nora Bayes, opposite Dennis Morgan.
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Ann Sheridan was absent from screens for over a year, touring with the USO to perform in front of the troops as far afield as China.
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Ann Sheridan returned in One More Tomorrow with Morgan.
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Ann Sheridan had an excellent role in the noir Nora Prentiss, which was a hit.
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Ann Sheridan's role in I Was a Male War Bride, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, was another success.
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Ann Sheridan made Stella, a comedy with Victor Mature at Fox.
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Ann Sheridan was going to make My Forbidden Past at RKO.
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Ann Sheridan made Woman on the Run, a noir starring Dennis O'Keefe which she produced.
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Ann Sheridan wanted to make a film called Her Secret Diary.
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Woman on the Run was distributed by Universal, and Ann Sheridan signed a contract with that studio.
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Ann Sheridan starred with Glenn Ford in Appointment in Honduras, directed by Jacques Tourneur.
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Ann Sheridan performed in stage tours of Kind Sir and Odd Man In, and The Time of Your Life at the Brussels World Fair in 1958.
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Ann Sheridan married actor Edward Norris August 16,1936, in Ensenada, Mexico.
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Ann Sheridan engaged in a romantic affair with Mexican actor Rodolfo Acosta, with whom she appeared in 1953's Appointment in Honduras.
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On June 5,1966, Ann Sheridan married actor Scott McKay, who was with her when she died seven months later.
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In 1966, Ann Sheridan began starring in a new television series, a Western-themed comedy called Pistols 'n' Petticoats.
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Ann Sheridan became ill during the filming and died of esophageal cancer with massive liver metastases at age 51 on January 21,1967, in Los Angeles.
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Ann Sheridan was cremated and her ashes were interred in the private vault at Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles until they were reinterred in a niche in the Chapel Columbarium at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005.