Ann Sheridan

Date de naissance
21 février 1915 · Denton, Texas, États-Unis
Date de décès
21 janvier 1967 · Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis (cancer de l'oeusophage)
Nom de naissance
Clara Lou Sheridan
Surnom
- The "Oomph" Girl
Taille
1,66 m

Warner Bros. was eager to portray her as a "Girl about town", so her contract demanded that she hit the nightclubs at least three times a week.
According to an article in "The Newark Evening News", she kept busy during her 1941 strike from Warner Bros. by rebuilding abandoned cars at a friend's garage.
In 1939, a fraternity bet inspired a UCLA student to handcuff himself to her during a movie premiere and then swallow the key. A locksmith had to be summoned to the theater to unlock her.
After making La révolte (1937), in which they played brother and sister, she and Humphrey Bogart became friends and began referring to each other as "Sister Annie" and "Brother Bogie".
In her will she asked that her cremated remains be placed in a columbarium at a cemetery in Los Angeles. Her biographer Karen McHale discovered that the actress' instructions had not been followed and arranged to have her final wishes fulfilled. Hollywood Forever Cemetery donated a niche and held a dignified service (presided over by her cousin, the Rev Sallie Watson) on 2/21/05-- which would have been her 90th birthday.

I used to go to Grauman's Chinese or Pantages and sit there waiting to see my faceless body on the screen. Texas began to look awfully near and awfully good, and "Clara Lou" had a sweet sound to my ears.
I can whistle through my fingers, bulldog a steer, light a fire with two sticks, shoot a pistol with fair accuracy, set type, and teach school . . .
They nicknamed me "The Oomph Girl", and I loathe that nickname! Just being known by a nickname indicates that you're not thought of as a true actress . . . It's just crap! If you call an actress by her looks or a reaction, then that's all she will ever be thought of as.
[on Errol Flynn] He was one of the wild characters of the world, but he had a strange, quiet side. He camouflaged himself completely. In all the years I knew him, I never really knew what lay underneath and I doubt if many people did.