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About Ann Sheridan
Clara Lou Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967), known professionally as Ann Sheridan, was an American actress and singer. She worked regularly from 1934 until her death, first in film and later in television. Notable roles include San Quentin (1937) with Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Bogart, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) with Monty Woolley, Kings Row (1942) with Ronald Reagan, Nora Prentiss (1947), and I Was a Male War Bride (1949) with Cary Grant.
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From the 1920 federal census, Clara [Ann] Sheridan lived with her mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, sisters, and brother at Denton, Denton County, Texas. The family at the time consisted of:
- Head George Sheridan 45
- Father Tom Sheridan 66
- Mother Nancy Sheridan 65
- Wife Lula Sheridan 42
- Daughter Ida M Sheridan 17
- Daughter Mable Sheridan 14
- Son G B Sheridan 11
- Daughter Pauline Sheridan 8
- Daughter Clara Sheridan 5
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3488/ann-sheridan
Actress. The youngest of five children, the daughter of a Texas auto mechanic and a housewife, Ann Sheridan came to Hollywood as the 18-year-old winner of Paramount's 1933 "Search for Beauty" contest and made her film debut in a 1934 film of the same name. She was a college student at North Texas State Teacher's College, when her sister thought she was beautiful enough to send in a picture of Ann in a bathing suit to Paramount Pictures. Billed under her real name, she played small parts in Come on, Marines, The Lemon Drop Kid, Ladies Should Listen, Murder at the Vanities, Bolero, Kiss and Make Up, College Rhythm (all in 1934), before landing her first leading role, billed as Ann Sheridan, in Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935), a Western whodunit. Paramount kept her busy throughout 1935 with mostly small, supporting roles, even using her as a body double and she left the studio, winding up at Warner Bros., who billed her as the "Oomph Girl". In 1936 she had supporting roles in Black Legion and Sing Me a Love Song before finally landing a leading role in The Great O'Malley (1937), starring Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart. A succession of B pictures followed until director Michael Curtiz gave her the role of a strong-minded slum girl in his gangster drama Angels With Dirty Faces in 1938. The success of that film earned Sheridan better roles in bigger pictures through the end of the 1930s and into the 1940s, including Torrid Zone and They Drive by Night (both 1940), Honeymoon for Three and The Man Who Came to Dinner (both 1941). She delivered what may have been the finest performance of her career as 'Randy Monoghan', the loyal small-town girl in Kings Row (1942, co-starring Ronald Reagan). She won excellent reviews in the role and Warners responded by putting her in other big-budget films throughout the 1940s, including George Washington Slept Here, Thank Your Lucky Stars, Edge of Darkness, Shine On, Harvest Moon, Nora Prentiss, The Unfaithful, and Silver River. She left the studio after making an unbilled guest appearance in The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948). As a freelance actor, she starred or co-starred in Good Sam (1948), I Was a Male War Bride (1949, co-starring Cary Grant and directed by Howard Hawks), Stella and Woman on the Run (both 1950), Steel Town, Just Across the Street (both 1952), Take Me to Town, Appointment in Honduras, (both 1953), Come Next Spring, The Opposite Sex (both 1956) and The Woman and The Hunter (1957). She worked several years in the theatre before turning to TV, where she starred in the daytime soap opera "Another World" (1965 to 1966) and the sitcom "Pistols and Petticoats" (1966 to 1967). A chain smoker, Ann Sheridan died of throat cancer at age 51 in 1967. Her first two husbands were actors Edward Norris (1936 to 1939) and George Brent (1942 to 1943).
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Ann Sheridan's Timeline
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February 21, 1915
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Denton, Denton County, Texas, United States
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| 1967 |
January 21, 1967
Age 51
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Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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Chapel Columbarium at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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