Ann Sheridan

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 7020 Hollywood Boulevard. She is of no relation to actress Jean Stapleton. Sheridan was married four times, including a marriage lasting one year to the actor George Brent. Her more recent appearances include Cocoon and Cocoon: The Return (1985 and 1988). She became ill during the filming of the first season, and died from esophageal and liver cancer in Woodland Hills, California. She was nominated again for Airport and Interiors (1978), and won for Reds (1981). 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. Her film career also brought her immediate success, with her debut in Lonelyhearts (1958) earning her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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 won a second Tony Award for Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady in 1971. Despite these successes, her career began to decline. She played in other Williams' productions Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton and Orpheus Descending, as well as Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic. 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). Stepping in as a replacement for Anna Magnani, Stapleton won a Tony Award for her role in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo in 1951. Her career prospects began to improve and tagged The Oomph Girl, Sheridan had become a popular pin-up girl by the early forties. She has said that it was her infatuation with the actor Joel McCrea that led her into acting, and she made her Broadway debut in Burgess Meredith's production of The Playboy of the Western World in 1946.

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. Stapleton began acting in theater after finishing high school, and rapidly gained respect as both a dramatic and comedic actress. She abandoned college to pursue a career in Hollywood. Lois Maureen Stapleton (born June 21, 1925 in Troy, New York) in an American theater and film actress. She subsequently entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her prize being a bit part in a Paramount film. Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, Texas, she was a college student when her sister sent a photograph of her to Paramount Studios.

Ann Sheridan (February 21 - 1915 - January 21, 1967) was an American film actress.