Sandra Shaw

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Apr 30 2022, 3:04:50 UTC

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Date and place of death have also been (erroneously?) reported to be February 16, 2000 at Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, United States (unattested, conflicts with her Wikipedia article and her Find A Grave memorial).

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She was an American actress who appeared in three films, acting under the name Sandra Shaw. She was the wife of the actor Gary Cooper and mother of painter Maria Cooper Janis.

Veronica Balfe was born to Veronica Gibbons and Harry Balfe Jr., and lived in Paris with her mother following her parents' divorce. Balfe did not see her father for many years, but kept in touch with her grandfather who owned a ranch in California. Balfe saw her father a few years before his death in the 1950s. Balfe's mother remarried to Paul Shields, a successful Wall Street financier.

Balfe was sent to Miss Bennett's School for Girls for her education. She was very interested in sports. In 1933, she went to see her grand-uncle, Cedric Gibbons, in Hollywood. She played parts in three 1933 films, King Kong, Blood Money, and No Other Woman. She also played herself in Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No.3, in 1942.

Balfe married the actor, Gary Cooper on December 15, 1933. In 1937, Balfe gave birth to their daughter, Maria Cooper. A devout Catholic, Veronica Balfe persuaded Cooper to convert to Catholicism in 1958. Following Cooper's death, Balfe married John Converse in 1964. Balfe was a heavy smoker. She was deeply interested in sports and was California's woman skeet champion in the 1930s. She also enjoyed golf, swimming, tennis and scuba-diving.

Balfe died in New York on 16 February, 2000.

Filmography:

1933 King Kong Blonde dropped by Kong

1933 Blood Money Girl at Racetrack

1933 No Other Woman

1942 Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No.3 Herself