Ann Sheridan

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 7020 Hollywood Boulevard. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1751 Vine Street. Sheridan was married four times, including a marriage lasting one year to the actor George Brent. It was made into a television movie starring Lee Remick. She became ill during the filming of the first season, and died from esophageal and liver cancer in Woodland Hills, California. Her daughter, actress Brooke Hayward, wrote a memoir, Haywire, about her family. She appeared in the television soap opera Another World during the mid sixties, and then started a role in the television series Pistols and Petticoats. She co-starred frequently with James Stewart, with whom she and Fonda had acted in a stock company when they were all unknowns.

Her role in I Was A Male War Bride (1949) gave her another success but by the fifties she was struggling to find work and her film roles were sporadic. She also appeared in Little Man, What Now?, The Good Fairy, So Red the Rose, The Moon's Our Home, Next Time We Love, The Shopworn Angel, Three Comrades (for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress), The Shop Around the Corner, The Mortal Storm, Appointment for Love and Cry Havoc. Despite these successes, her career began to decline. Her film debut came in 1933 in Only Yesterday. She received substantial roles and positive reaction from critics and moviegoers in such films as Angels With Dirty Faces (1938 opposite James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart), Dodge City (1939 opposite Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland), Torrid Zone and They Drive By Night ( both 1940), The Man Who Came To Dinner (1942 opposite Bette Davis) and Kings Row (1942 where she received top billing playing opposite Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings and Betty Field). Her death was officially ruled an accident, but many think it was a suicide. Her career prospects began to improve and tagged The Oomph Girl, Sheridan had become a popular pin-up girl by the early forties. She was found unconscious in a hotel room in New Haven, Connecticut from a barbiturate overdose on January 1, 1960.

She made her film debut in 1934 in the film Search For Beauty and played uncredited bit parts in Paramount films for the next two years. Paramount made little effort to develop her talent so she left, signing a contract with Warner Brothers in 1936 and changing her name to Ann Sheridan. Sullavan suffered from depression and a congenital hearing defect that grew worse as she grew older. She abandoned college to pursue a career in Hollywood. Her last film role was in 1950. She subsequently entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her prize being a bit part in a Paramount film. While married to Hayward, she worked less and less. Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, Texas, she was a college student when her sister sent a photograph of her to Paramount Studios. Her third marriage, to agent and producer Leland Hayward, lasted 13 years and produced three children.

Ann Sheridan (February 21 - 1915 - January 21, 1967) was an American film actress. Her marriage to director William Wyler was equally brief. The marriage ended the following year, although Sullavan and Fonda remained lifelong friends. She married Henry Fonda on December 25 of that year. She made her Broadway debut in 1931.

She was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of a wealthy stockbroker. Margaret Brooke Sullavan (May 16, 1911 - January 1, 1960) was an American actress.