ANN SHERIDAN BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Ann Sheridan was born on February 21st, 1915 in Denton, Texas with the birth name Clara Lou Sheridan.  She was the youngest of five children and was a very athletic young lady.  Her original intentions were to pursue a career as a teacher, however one of her sisters felt that Ann was so beautiful, she entered her photo in a "Search for Beauty" contest for Paramount Studio's and Ann won the contest.  The winning prize was a screen test and also a small part in a film.
 
At the age of eighteen, Paramount signed her to a contract and she was cast in a number of small roles still credited under her birth name.  As she began to add roles to her resume, her name was changed from Clara to Ann and by 1936, Warner Brothers took her on another contract and they nicknamed her the "Oomph" girl.
 
Ann had no issue portraying a variety of different characters and the public really took to her.  Some of her early film role were on such features as, "Angels With Dirty Faces" (1938), "Torrid Zone" (1940), "They Drive by Night" (1940) and I Was a Male War Bride" (1949).  She also appeared on the soap opera, "Another World" (1964) and the Western Series, "Pistols 'n' Petticoats" (1966).  She was receiving around 250 marriage proposals per week in fan mail and was a very popular pin up girl of the 1940's.  
 
However, as fast as her career inclined it also began to see a decline and her age was really beginning to show through, especially in her last film role, "Woman and the Hunter" (1957).  Film roles were becoming less available to her, but she was just regaining some popularity from viewers when, sadly, she was unable to beat her fight with cancer and lost her life on January 21st, 1967 in Los Angeles, California at the age of fifty one.
 
Ann Sheridan married three times throughout her life.  Her first marriage was to Edward Norris from August 16th, 1936 and they were only together for two years before she divorced and married for a second time to George Brent in 1942 but this marriage too was short lived and ended in 1943.  Her third and final marriage was to Scott McKay from June 5th, 1966 and they were together until Ann lost her life way before her time.
 
She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to the Motion Picture Industry. 

 
Filmography

1966-1967 Pistols 'n' Petticoats ietta Hanks
1965-1966 Another World 
1962 Wagon Train
1956-1960 The United States Steel Hour
1958 Pursuit
1958 Armchair Theatre
1953-1957 The Ford Television Theatre 
1957 Playhouse 90 
1953-1957 Lux Video Theatre 
1957 Woman and the Hunter 
1956 The Opposite Sex 
1956 Calling Terry Conway 
1956 Sneak Preview
1956 Come Next Spring
1956 Celebrity Playhouse 
1953 Appointment in Honduras 
1953 Schlitz Playhouse
1953 Take Me to Town 
1952 Just Across the Street 
1952 Steel Town 
1950 Woman on the Run 
1950 Stella
1949 I Was a Male War Bride 
1948 Good Sam
1948 Silver River 
1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 
1947 The Unfaithful 
1947 Nora Prentiss
1946 One More Tomorrow 
1944 The Doughgirls 
1944 Shine on Harvest Moon 
1943 Edge of Darkness 
1942 George Washington Slept Here 
1942 Wings for the Eagle 
1942 Juke Girl
1942 Kings Row 
1942 The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 Navy Blues 
1941 Honeymoon for Three
1940 City for Conquest 
1940 They Drive by Night
1940 Torrid Zone
1940 It All Came True
1940 Castle on the Hudson
1939 The Angels Wash Their Faces
1939 Winter Carnival
1939 Indianapolis Speedway
1939 Naughty But Nice 
1939 Dodge City
1939 They Made Me a Criminal
1938 Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 Broadway Musketeers
1938 Letter of Introduction
1938 Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938 Little Miss Thoroughbred
1938 Mystery House 
1938 The Patient in Room 18 
1937 She Loved a Fireman
1937 Alcatraz Island 
1937 Wine, Women and Horses
1937 The Footloose Heiress
1937 San Quentin
1937 The Great O'Malley
1937 Black Legion 
1936 Sing Me a Love Song 
1935 Fighting Youth 
1935 The Crusades 
1935 The Glass Key 
1935 The Red Blood of Courage
1935 Mississippi 
1935 Rocky Mountain Mystery 
1935 Car 99
1935 Rumba 
1935 Home on the Range 
1935 Enter Madame 
1934 One Hour Late 
1934 Limehouse Blues 
1934 Behold My Wife 
1934 Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove 
1934 Ready for Love
1934 College Rhythm 
1934 Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 
1934 The Lemon Drop Kid
1934 Wagon Wheels
1934 You Belong to Me 
1934 Ladies Should Liste
1934 The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934 Kiss and Make-Up 
1934 Shoot the Works 
1934 Murder at the Vanities 
1934 Come on Marines
1934 Bolero
1934 Search for Beauty