Sara Shane(1928-2022)
- Actress
This gorgeous blonde was born Elaine Sterling on May 18, 1928 and raised in St. Louis before beginning her career as a face and hand model for cosmetic ads. She moved briefly to NYC before transporting herself to Hollywood, wherein she earned an MGM contract. She decorated a number of the studio's big musical pictures at that time under her real name, including bits in Parade de printemps (1948) and La fille de Neptune (1949) but
found little room for advancement. Leaving MGM, she changed her moniker to Sara Shane and signed a one-year contract with
Universal-International, where she was glimpsed in such films as Le signe du païen (1954) and Le secret magnifique (1954). During this time, she married William Hollingsworth. They divorced after eight years of marriage in 1957.
Her parts got bigger on the screen once she left to freelance but the pictures, themselves, were not necessarily of a higher grade. Three Bad Sisters (1956), Le roi et quatre reines (1956) with Clark Gable, and Rendez-vous à La Havane (1957), at the very least, put her in the featured role bracket. From there, she moved directly into TV roles and worked throughout much the late 1950s/early 1960s on such programs as Badge 714 (1951), Alfred Hitchcock présente (1955), Au-delà du réel (1963) and Voyage au fond des mers (1964). Her film career peaked when she was chosen to play the Jane-like role, opposite muscleman Gordon Scott's vine swinger, in La Plus Grande Aventure de Tarzan (1959), one of the better entries in the series.
Never connecting strongly with the whirlwind social circle, she left the Hollywood limelight and retired from show biz in her late 30s. She turned to writing and began to devote herself to the study of pharmaceuticals. She wrote two books, 'Zulma' and 'Take Control of Your Health and Escape the Sickness Industry', the first was a work of fiction and the second was a book promoting healthy living. To escape the pollution of Los Angeles, she moved to Australia where she still lives on her 5 acre home.
Her parts got bigger on the screen once she left to freelance but the pictures, themselves, were not necessarily of a higher grade. Three Bad Sisters (1956), Le roi et quatre reines (1956) with Clark Gable, and Rendez-vous à La Havane (1957), at the very least, put her in the featured role bracket. From there, she moved directly into TV roles and worked throughout much the late 1950s/early 1960s on such programs as Badge 714 (1951), Alfred Hitchcock présente (1955), Au-delà du réel (1963) and Voyage au fond des mers (1964). Her film career peaked when she was chosen to play the Jane-like role, opposite muscleman Gordon Scott's vine swinger, in La Plus Grande Aventure de Tarzan (1959), one of the better entries in the series.
Never connecting strongly with the whirlwind social circle, she left the Hollywood limelight and retired from show biz in her late 30s. She turned to writing and began to devote herself to the study of pharmaceuticals. She wrote two books, 'Zulma' and 'Take Control of Your Health and Escape the Sickness Industry', the first was a work of fiction and the second was a book promoting healthy living. To escape the pollution of Los Angeles, she moved to Australia where she still lives on her 5 acre home.
