Ann Sheridan

 Ann Sheridan, born Clara Lou Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967)

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). However, by the 1950s she was struggling to find work and her film roles were sporadic. In 1950, she appeared on the ABC musical television series Stop the Music. In 1962, she played the lead in "The Mavis Grant Story" on the Western series Wagon Train. In the middle 1960s, Sheridan appeared on the NBC soap opera Another World. She also had a TV series of her own in the mid-1960s, a comedy Western entitled Pistols 'n' Petticoats. She was also the heroine of a novel, Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx, written by Kathryn Heisenfelt, published by Whitman Publishing Company in 1943. While the heroine of the story was identified as a famous actress, the stories were entirely fictitious. While working on Pistols 'n' Petticoats, Sheridan became ill during the filming, and died of esophageal and liver cancer at age 51 on January 21, 1967. She was cremated, and her ashes are interred at Hollywood Forever.