Ann Sheridan gets her first biography

Oomph.

She was definitely looking her age in Pistols and Petticoats. Don't forget her lovely warm contralto...

I really enjoy the Steve Cochran-Ann Sheridan film "Come Next Spring" and wonder if they ever fucked

R1 You beat me to it!

Ann found out she had cancer when she started Pistols n Petticoats.

One of my favorites is “Nora Prentiss.”

Dear God outside of DL anyone interested in Ann Sheridan is dead.

In Waikiki

Don't be silly, r7, there are cinephiles of all ages.

Does it discuss George Brent’s bent dick and how that doomed his marriage to Ann?

R3 - No. Steve either liked big breasts or teenage girls, preferably both.

I like George Brent. His hair was so thick and lustrous that he was able to hide IRA documents in it.

mary!

Here's my take on "Nora Prentiss," a hit in its day...

OP, great thread!

Loved her in Woman on the Run......

"Woman on the Run" is a nifty little noir, which Sheridan helped get made, but at the time was just another suspense film. Since been rediscovered and restored, thanks to Eddie Muller. Here's my take:

I came here to discuss "Woman on the Run," too. You can tell by the production values that it was done on a tight budget with AS just past peak. But boy, she was lovely!

She was as the Mystery Guest on "What's My Line?"

Sheridan is terrific in Angels with Dirty Faces, very naturalistic acting style and she presents world weary so authentically.

She was one of my mom’s favorites, along with Bette Davis.

Ann's screen attitude is very modern, which is why she's so watchable today...

Op, do you get a reviewer copies of the book or did you have to buy it?

There are actors and actresses who were extremely popular with great careers who are virtually unknown today, and Ann Sheridan is near the top of that list. (see Kay Francis, Virginia Mayo, Joel McCrea)

Off the top of my head I could name one film I know she was in, "George Washington Slept Here", but even that film I've never seen.

I've seen The Doughgirls. It's a comedy directed by a stage director with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

You know a film is bad when not even Eve Arden makes it funny.

She played Nora Bayes...but they dubbed her voice.

Nora Prentiss

Nora Prentiss is such a sad story. I prefer The Unfaithful. It's got that great driving Max Steiner score.

I adore The Unfaithful with that hot little minx Lew Ayres

Shine on Harvest Moon with Dennis Morgan was entertaining. In real life, Nora Bayes relationship with Morgan’s character ended in divorce, but in the movie it was true love. I preferred the days when biopics were only loosely beholden to the truth

Queen of the Overdrawn Lip.

Not to be pointlessly bitchy, but theres a reason no biography was ever written about her in the half century since her death.

Fuck you

Laura Wagner was supposedly working on a book a few years ago about Ann, after she had devoted a chapter to her in the book Killer Tomatoes: 15 Tough Film Dames. But it never came out.

R32 I bet you W/W your own posts

You bet wrong, then

there's a reason no biography was ever written about her in the half century since her death.

What is it?

I love They Drive By Night with Ann, George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, and crazy Ida Lupino.

Was Ida Lupino crazy? Or do you mean her character? I love Ida 💕

She was underused in "The Women."

Real name: Clara Lou Ann Sheridan

Ann was not in "The Women," but in its remake "The Opposite Sex."

I got a PDF to read for this review. I personally think that Ann Sheridan has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity over the last 10 or so years. Partly because of TCM and the continued interest in classic movies. At the end of my review, I list the movies Ann made worth watching. My personal favorites: Torrid Zone, with Cagney, and Ann is funny and quite sexy. Kings Row, with Ann the best of the young cast in the forerunner to Peyton Place. She's also good in her later noirs: The Unfaithful, Nora Prentiss, and Woman on the Run.

George Brent = Ewwww

Woman on the Run has that creepy laughing doll at the carnival. And poor Ann trapped in a rear projection rollercoaster.

I love her in The Man Who Came to Dinner, sparring with Bette Davis.

One of the most underrated actresses of The Golden Age.

Fought with Warner Brothers for better parts and was suspended a few times. Alas, she's another actress who turned down "Mildred Pierce".

R42 - Rick do you plan on reviewing the new book on Alexis Smith? She is Ann adjacent.

Reply 42, I should as I really do not know a lot about Alexis. Rick

I thought Sheridan stole "The Man Who Came to Dinner." Directed in typical frantic WB style, Woolley yells his lines, Billie Burke does her dither bit, and Bette is being a good sport in the straight woman lead. But Ann's a delight as Lorraine Sheldon! A natural at comedy.

She had a great laugh but also a great scream in The Unfaithful when she is attacked, though I guess that could have been dubbed as it is only heard and not seen.

LOVED her in I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE in which she plays "straight man" to Cary Grant. That film should be better known.

Considering Jack Warner was so ornery with his leading ladies like Bette, Olivia, Ida and Ann, it's fascinating he kept hiring difficult women. Clearly, he recognized talent, even if he pushed it into lots of bad projects.

Sadly, she aged very rapidly, long before she contracted cancer. Like Ginger Rogers, she became rather husky, too.

Despite having a reputation as a man's studio with stars like Bogart, Cagney and Robinson, Warners had a lot of female contractees, more than I had expected.

Ann was not a great singer or actress for that matter. But she was good at comedy wisecracking.

Ann Jillian's better be next

R38 Ida's character was crazy.....she murdered her husband Alan Hale so she could have George Raft. George of course loved Ann and wouldn't have anything to do with her....made her even crazier.

I loved Ida in everything except that episode of Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.....and comedienne she was not!

I love Ida too but I think her climactic crazy act in court is too over the top. The doors made me do it.

Interesting that she allowed the bump on her forehead to be shown. She usually wore her hair in a style to hide it.

Ida's part of the story was lifted from "Bordertown" with Paul Muni and Bette Davis playing the crazy lady...

I was first introduced to Ida Lupino in reruns of her 1950s sitcom with hot HOT hubby Howard Duff, MR ADAMS & EVE, in which they played a married couple who just happened to be Hollywood movie stars. I loved it and found her very funny. They're not that different, I suppose, than they appear on the Lucy/Desi Comedy Hour. Check out an episode if you can find it online.

She should have done more comedy.

Pardon me, but is this an Ida Lupino thread? No? I didn't think so.

6 days and only 61 posts later, Clara Lou, be grateful your oomph is getting some life support to extend this thread.

One author wrote in a Hollywood book that Ida was bald from a childhood bout with scarlet fever and wore wigs in ALL of her movies.....I can't disagree......and later in life she always wore wigs held on by scarves.

Heard that silly rumor before but I think Ida's baldness must be highly exaggerated if not an out and out lie. Was she really that talented or beautiful that a big studio like Warner Bros. would have invested so much in a young starlet who was bald and had to constantly be wigged?

Yes, as she aged, she may have lost a lot of hair and needed wigs.

If so, maybe Ida shoulda played Fanny Skeffington!

Goddam this site. That comment was for another thread.

R22, the best line in "George Washington Slept Here" was when Charles Coburn, playing an uncle who is exposed as a fraud for being super-rich, is asked why he pretended to be wealthy and he says, "Because I like the white meat and the comfortable chair." Awesome.

That is a very funny line, I really should check out the film now.