Sheila Guyse was born in Forest, Mississippi on July 14,1925.
20 Facts About Sheila Guyse
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Sheila Guyse moved with her parents in 1945 to Manhattan, New York City, where she worked at a dime store on 125th Street, across from the Apollo Theater.
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Sheila Guyse made her nightclub debut in 1945 at Club Zombie in Detroit.
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Sheila Guyse appeared in the "Harlem Follies of 1949" and in a 1957 television adaptation of the play The Green Pastures.
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Sheila Guyse was not an experienced or trained actress but she was a natural talent.
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Sheila Guyse made her Broadway debut in the stage production Memphis Bound, which opened in 1945.
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Sheila Guyse was selected to play the female lead opposite Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
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Sheila Guyse appeared in the Broadway stage productions Lost in the Stars and Finian's Rainbow, which were both long-running.
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Sheila Guyse was popular in the 1940s and 1950s, and graced many covers of publications such as Jet, Ebony, and Our World.
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Sheila Guyse was known to grace the cover of a magazine called Hue.
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Sheila Guyse married and divorced Shelby Irving Miller, and their union produced one daughter, Sheila Crystal Miller.
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Sheila Guyse's most publicized marriage was to her second husband, Kenneth Davis.
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Sheila Guyse and Davis met on the set of Finian's Rainbow, where Davis was a dancer.
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In 1954 Ken Davis and Sheila Guyse announced that they would end their marriage.
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In 1958 Sheila Guyse married Joseph Jackson, a sanitation worker in New York, and they had two children: Deidre Jean Jackson and Michael Jackson.
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Sheila Guyse later became a Jehovah's Witness due to her marriage to Jackson.
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Shelia Sheila Guyse's health played a very important role in her career as a performer and entertainer.
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Sheila Guyse struggled with her health many times throughout her career which caused her to turn down various roles and even take time away from the entertainment industry.
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Sheila Guyse later came back to the entertainment industry in 1958 to record her only studio album, This is Sheila.
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Sheila Guyse died of complications due to Alzheimer's disease on December 28,2013, at the age of 88.