Here's my look at one of my favorites, Ann Sheridan, getting her first full-fledged biography, by Michael D. Rinella. I learned a great deal in this well-researched bio, especially about the trajectory of Sheridan's career. I had great fun reading about Annie's life & movie stardom, as well as putting together this post! Lots of fun photos, too.
Oomph.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 19, 2024 2:47 AM |
She was definitely looking her age in Pistols and Petticoats. Don't forget her lovely warm contralto...
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 19, 2024 2:59 AM |
I really enjoy the Steve Cochran-Ann Sheridan film "Come Next Spring" and wonder if they ever fucked
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 19, 2024 3:02 AM |
R1 You beat me to it!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 19, 2024 3:07 AM |
Ann found out she had cancer when she started Pistols n Petticoats.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 19, 2024 3:19 AM |
One of my favorites is “Nora Prentiss.”
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 19, 2024 3:34 AM |
Dear God outside of DL anyone interested in Ann Sheridan is dead.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 19, 2024 3:41 AM |
Don't be silly, r7, there are cinephiles of all ages.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 19, 2024 3:45 AM |
Does it discuss George Brent’s bent dick and how that doomed his marriage to Ann?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 19, 2024 4:04 AM |
R3 - No. Steve either liked big breasts or teenage girls, preferably both.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 19, 2024 4:11 AM |
I like George Brent. His hair was so thick and lustrous that he was able to hide IRA documents in it.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 19, 2024 4:19 AM |
mary!
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 19, 2024 4:21 AM |
Here's my take on "Nora Prentiss," a hit in its day...
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 19, 2024 10:53 AM |
OP, great thread!
Loved her in Woman on the Run......
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 19, 2024 11:29 AM |
"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:
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 19, 2024 4:14 PM |
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?"
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 19, 2024 6:57 PM |
Sheridan is terrific in Angels with Dirty Faces, very naturalistic acting style and she presents world weary so authentically.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 19, 2024 7:06 PM |
She was one of my mom’s favorites, along with Bette Davis.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 19, 2024 7:48 PM |
Ann's screen attitude is very modern, which is why she's so watchable today...
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 19, 2024 8:58 PM |
Op, do you get a reviewer copies of the book or did you have to buy it?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 21, 2024 2:48 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 21, 2024 3:27 PM |
I've seen The Doughgirls. It's a comedy directed by a stage director with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 22, 2024 3:19 AM |
You know a film is bad when not even Eve Arden makes it funny.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 22, 2024 3:22 AM |
She played Nora Bayes...but they dubbed her voice.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 22, 2024 3:29 AM |
Nora Prentiss is such a sad story. I prefer The Unfaithful. It's got that great driving Max Steiner score.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 22, 2024 3:40 AM |
I adore The Unfaithful with that hot little minx Lew Ayres
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 22, 2024 5:29 AM |
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
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 22, 2024 5:30 AM |
Queen of the Overdrawn Lip.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 22, 2024 5:46 AM |
Not to be pointlessly bitchy, but theres a reason no biography was ever written about her in the half century since her death.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 22, 2024 5:51 AM |
Fuck you
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 22, 2024 5:57 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 22, 2024 7:38 AM |
R32 I bet you W/W your own posts
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 22, 2024 7:55 AM |
You bet wrong, then
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 22, 2024 1:09 PM |
there's a reason no biography was ever written about her in the half century since her death.
What is it?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 22, 2024 1:40 PM |
I love They Drive By Night with Ann, George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, and crazy Ida Lupino.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 22, 2024 4:47 PM |
Was Ida Lupino crazy? Or do you mean her character? I love Ida 💕
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 22, 2024 5:08 PM |
She was underused in "The Women."
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 22, 2024 7:23 PM |
Real name: Clara Lou Ann Sheridan
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 22, 2024 9:00 PM |
Ann was not in "The Women," but in its remake "The Opposite Sex."
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 22, 2024 9:04 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 22, 2024 9:16 PM |
George Brent = Ewwww
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 22, 2024 9:25 PM |
Woman on the Run has that creepy laughing doll at the carnival. And poor Ann trapped in a rear projection rollercoaster.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 23, 2024 1:46 AM |
I love her in The Man Who Came to Dinner, sparring with Bette Davis.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 23, 2024 1:57 AM |
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".
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 23, 2024 2:01 AM |
R42 - Rick do you plan on reviewing the new book on Alexis Smith? She is Ann adjacent.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 23, 2024 2:07 AM |
Reply 42, I should as I really do not know a lot about Alexis. Rick
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 23, 2024 2:49 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 23, 2024 2:51 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 23, 2024 2:59 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 23, 2024 3:01 AM |
Sadly, she aged very rapidly, long before she contracted cancer. Like Ginger Rogers, she became rather husky, too.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 23, 2024 3:03 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 23, 2024 3:06 AM |
Ann was not a great singer or actress for that matter. But she was good at comedy wisecracking.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 23, 2024 11:23 AM |
Ann Jillian's better be next
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 23, 2024 11:30 AM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 23, 2024 1:48 PM |
I love Ida too but I think her climactic crazy act in court is too over the top. The doors made me do it.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 23, 2024 7:46 PM |
Interesting that she allowed the bump on her forehead to be shown. She usually wore her hair in a style to hide it.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 23, 2024 7:50 PM |
Ida's part of the story was lifted from "Bordertown" with Paul Muni and Bette Davis playing the crazy lady...
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 23, 2024 7:53 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 23, 2024 9:20 PM |
Pardon me, but is this an Ida Lupino thread? No? I didn't think so.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 23, 2024 10:30 PM |
6 days and only 61 posts later, Clara Lou, be grateful your oomph is getting some life support to extend this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 23, 2024 10:50 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 24, 2024 12:00 AM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 24, 2024 12:56 PM |
Yes, as she aged, she may have lost a lot of hair and needed wigs.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 24, 2024 12:57 PM |
If so, maybe Ida shoulda played Fanny Skeffington!
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 24, 2024 3:57 PM |
Goddam this site. That comment was for another thread.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 24, 2024 4:17 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 27, 2024 10:52 PM |
That is a very funny line, I really should check out the film now.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | July 28, 2024 12:03 AM |