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Ann Sheridan is a Actor American born on 21 february 1915 at Denton (USA)

Ann Sheridan

Ann Sheridan
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Birth name Clara Lou Sheridan
Nationality USA
Birth 21 february 1915 at Denton (USA)
Death 21 january 1967 (at 51 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Ann Sheridan (born Clara Lou Sheridan; February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967) was an American actress. She worked regularly from 1934 to her death in 1967, first in film and later in television. Notable roles include Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), Kings Row (1942), Nora Prentiss (1947) and I Was a Male War Bride (1949).

Biography

Ann Sheridan est encore étudiante à l’Université de North Texas lorsque sa sœur envoie une photo d'elle aux studios Paramount Pictures. Elle est alors invitée à participer à un concours de beauté, la lauréate ayant droit à un rôle de figuration dans un film.

C’est ainsi qu'elle fait ses débuts à l'écran en 1934, à 19 ans, dans un film intitulé Search for Beauty avec Buster Crabbe. Elle décide d'abandonner ses études pour se consacrer au cinéma et joue des rôles de figurantes (non crédités au générique) jusqu'en 1936. Les studios Paramount mettant peu d’enthousiasme à valoriser la jeune actrice, elle signe un contrat avec Warner Bros., et adopte un nom de scène : Ann Sheridan.

Sa beauté la rend bientôt célèbre. Surnommée The Oomph Girl (« la fille qui a du peps »), elle est l’une des pin-ups les plus célèbres du début des années 1940 : en l’espace d'une semaine, elle reçoit 250 demandes en mariage. Kathryn Heisenfelt en fait l'héroïne d'un roman de gare, Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx (1943).

Ses premiers rôles les plus célèbres sont dans Les Anges aux figures sales (1938) avec James Cagney et Humphrey Bogart, Les Conquérants (1939) avec Errol Flynn et Olivia de Havilland, Torrid Zone (1940) avec Cagney, Une femme dangereuse (1940) avec George Raft et Bogart, L'Homme qui vint dîner (1942) avec Bette Davis, et Crimes sans châtiment (1942) avec Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings et Betty Field. Excellente chanteuse, Ann tourne également plusieurs comédies musicales, notamment It All Came True (1940) et Navy Blues (1941). Son jeu dans Nora Prentiss et The Unfaithful, deux films sortis en 1947, marque son époque.

Pourtant, à la fin des années 1940, sa carrière décline. Si Allez coucher ailleurs!, de Howard Hawks (1949), où elle partage l'affiche avec Cary Grant, est encore un succès, elle ne trouve plus désormais que de petits rôles. Elle entame alors une seconde carrière à la télévision. En 1950, on la retrouve dans un show télévisé de ABC, Stop the Music, puis au milieu des années 1960, dans un soap opera de NBC intitulé Another World, et un feuilleton de western, Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966). C'est son dernier rôle : elle meurt d'un cancer de l'œsophage et du foie à Los Angeles (Californie) l'année suivante. Le tournage du feuilleton est interrompu avant qu'elle ne meure, mais certains épisodes ont été diffusés par la suite. Dans au moins l'un de ces épisodes, sa voix est doublée.

Elle s'adonnait à la cigarette depuis des années et James Cagney affirme dans son autobiographie que lorsqu'elle apprit son cancer, elle était déjà perdue (« she didn't have a chance »). Elle est incinérée et ses cendres sont déposées au Chapel of the Pines Crematory de Los Angeles, puis au Hollywood Forever Cemetery en 2005.

Ann Sheridan s'est mariée trois fois. Son mariage avec l'acteur George Brent, son partenaire dans Honeymoon for Three (1941), n'a duré qu'un an.

En reconnaissance de sa place dans le cinéma américain, elle a son étoile sur le Walk Of Fame, au n 7024 de Hollywood Boulevard.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ann Sheridan (83 films)

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Actress

The Opposite Sex, 1h57
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Jeff Richards, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller
Roles Amanda Penrose
Rating60% 3.0470353.0470353.0470353.0470353.047035
The story concerns Kay Hilliard (June Allyson), a former nightclub singer who discovers her husband Steven (Leslie Nielsen) is having an affair with showgirl Crystal Allen (Joan Collins). Kay is the last to find out among her circle of gossiping girlfriends. Kay travels to Reno to divorce from Steve who then marries Crystal, but when Kay finds out that Crystal isn't true to Steve she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back.
Come Next Spring, 1h32
Directed by R. G. Springsteen
Genres Drama
Actors Ann Sheridan, Walter Brennan, Steve Cochran, Sherry Jackson, Richard Eyer, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Bess Ballot
Rating70% 3.537483.537483.537483.537483.53748
Après douze ans d'absence, Matt Ballot, autrefois connu pour son caractère bagarreur et son alcoolisme, revient dans sa région. Il y retrouve sa femme Bess qui durant ce temps a continué à s'occuper de la ferme, en élevant ses deux enfants, Annie, une jeune fille qui a perdu l'usage de la parole à la suite d'un accident provoqué par Matt, et Abraham qui ne l'a jamais connu. Bess ne leur cache pas que cet inconnu est leur père. Matt, qui s'est acheté une conduite, désire rester, mais Bess est réticente. Annie et Abraham se sentent attirés vers Matt, qui, petit à petit, se rend indispensable.
Take Me to Town
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Ann Sheridan, Sterling Hayden, Fess Parker, Anita Ekberg, Phillip Reed, Lee Aaker
Roles Vermillion O'Toole
Rating63% 3.193623.193623.193623.193623.19362
On the lam after a robbery and needing a place to hide out, Vermilion O'Toole and her partner, Newt Cole, settle down in a new town.
Appointment in Honduras, 1h19
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott, Rodolfo Acosta, Jack Elam, Americo "Rico" Alaniz
Roles Sylvia Sheppard
Rating55% 2.7567452.7567452.7567452.7567452.756745
Taking place in 1910, during a fictional revolution in Honduras, Corbett was hired to ensure that a large sum of money came to the deposed political leader. Sylvia Sheppard (Ann Sheridan) and her wealthy husband Harry Sheppard (Zachary Scott) are unwilling hostages of Jim Corbett (Glenn Ford), who is accompanied through the jungle by several wanted criminals. Sylvia, ever the unfaithful wife, eventually falls in love with Corbett. They encounter various dangers, including crocodiles, "tiger fish," large snakes, biting ants, a huge swarm of some unnamed, assumedly stinging, insect, malaria, and armed insurgents.
Steel Town
Steel Town (1952)
, 1h25
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ann Sheridan, John Lund, Howard Duff, Elaine Riley, James Best, Chick Chandler
Roles 'Red' McNamara
Rating65% 3.274823.274823.274823.274823.27482
An attractive woman everybody knows as "Red" runs a restaurant. Her boyfriend Jim Denko, who works at the Kostane steel plant, comes to the restaurant for dinner, but when Red gives his steak away to a customer, words are exchanged and the men get into a fight.
The Lemon Drop Kid, 1h31
Directed by Sidney Lanfield, Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Ann Sheridan, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, Andrea King
Rating69% 3.4960253.4960253.4960253.4960253.496025
The Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope), a New York City swindler, is illegally touting horses at a Florida racetrack. The Kid touts across a beautiful woman intending to bet $2,000 on a horse named Iron Bar. Rigging a con, the Kid convinces her to switch her bet, but learns that she was betting for boyfriend and notorious gangster Moose Moran (Fred Clark). When the horse finishes dead last, a furious Moran demands the Kid pay him $10,000 (the amount he would have won) by Christmas Eve, or the Kid "won't make it to New Year's."
Stella
Stella (1950)

Directed by Claude Binyon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Victor Mature, Ann Sheridan, Leif Erickson, Randy Stuart, David Wayne, Frank Fontaine
Roles Stella Bevans
Rating65% 3.282223.282223.282223.282223.28222
L'oncle Joe vient de mourir accidentellement. Carl (David Wayne), son cousin, décide de cacher le corps par peur d'être suspecté. Mais la famille de la victime découvre que l'oncle avait souscrit une importante assurance-vie et qu'il est donc important de trouver un nouveau corps afin d'en bénéficier.
Woman on the Run, 1h17
Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, Ross Elliott, John Qualen, Frank Jenks
Roles Eleanor Johnson
Rating71% 3.5945753.5945753.5945753.5945753.594575
As the film opens, a man, Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), is walking his dog in the city at night. He witnesses a man in a car talking about a crime. The man then gets shot. But whoever shot that man then sees Frank and shoots at him. The shot misses, however, because it is mistakenly aimed at Frank's shadow. The killer then flees in the car.
I Was a Male War Bride, 1h45
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Kenneth Tobey, Randy Stuart, Carl Jaffe
Roles Lt. Catherine Gates
Rating69% 3.4982753.4982753.4982753.4982753.498275
In post-World War II Germany, French Army Captain Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is given the task of recruiting a highly skilled lens maker, Schindler (Martin Miller). He is assigned American Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) as his chauffeur, much to their mutual discomfort (arising from several prior clashes). The only available transportation is a motorcycle, which due to Army regulations, only Catherine is allowed to drive; Henri has to ride in the sidecar. After several mishaps, the constantly quarreling couple arrive at their destination, Bad Nauheim.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 2h6
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about capital punishment, L'Or
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya
Roles Pretty woman walking past barbershop (uncredited)
Rating81% 4.0990054.0990054.0990054.0990054.099005
In 1925 in the Mexican oil-town of Tampico, Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Curtin (Tim Holt), two Americans cheated out of promised wages and down on their luck, meet old prospector Howard (Walter Huston). When one of them wins a small jackpot in the lottery, they have the bankroll to finance a gold prospecting journey to the remote Sierra Madre mountains.
Good Sam
Good Sam (1948)
, 1h54
Directed by Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund Lowe, Joan Lorring, Clinton Sundberg
Roles Lucille 'Lu' Clayton
Rating62% 3.146713.146713.146713.146713.14671
Sam Clayton is too good for his own good. A sermon by Rev. Daniels persuades him to help others in every way he can, including his wife Lu's good-for-nothing brother, Claude, who's been living with them rent-free for six months, and their neighbors the Butlers, who need a car for a vacation when theirs breaks down.
Silver River, 1h50
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Monte Blue
Roles Georgia Moore
Rating64% 3.244273.244273.244273.244273.24427
During the American Civil War, soldier Mike McComb is cashiered from the army when he disobeys orders in order to prevent the Confederates from stealing the one million dollars he is guarding by burning the money. After being publicly humiliated by the townspeople, he and his friend 'Pistol' Porter confiscate gambling equipment and set out to Silver City, Nevada to open a saloon and gambling hall. On his way to St. Joseph, Mike meets Georgia Moore, a beautiful but serious woman that runs the Silver River mine with her husband Stanley and is currently hiring all the available wagons.
The Unfaithful, 1h49
Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Monte Blue, Jerome Cowan
Roles Christine Hunter
Rating67% 3.3935253.3935253.3935253.3935253.393525
Chris Hunter stabs a man in her home one night while her husband Bob is out of town. The dead man's name is Tanner and she claims not to know him.