Gail Sheridan | |
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Born | Shirley Gail Mingins January 11, 1916 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
Died | September 17, 1982 Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 66)
Other names | Shirley Nibley, Gail Katcher, Shirley Katcher |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1936-1937 |
Spouse(s) | Alexander Sloan Nibley (1938-1942) (divorced) (1 child) David Abraham Katcher (1947-1982) (her death) (1 child) |
Gail Sheridan (January 11, 1916, Seattle, Washington – September 17, 1982, Chevy Chase, Maryland) was an American film actress and dancer in the 1930s.
Gail Sheridan was born Shirley Gail Mingins in Seattle[1] and raised in Berkeley and San Francisco,[2] the daughter of Royall Wood Mingins and Fay Mitchell Kear Mingins. Her father was a court reporter.[3][4] She had a sister, June.[5] She studied drama with Robert Warwick, ballet with Theodore Kosloff and Spanish dance with Elisa Cansino as a young woman.[2][6]
Sheridan was named one of the twelve Goldwyn Girls in 1935, alongside Anya Taranda and Jinx Falkenburg.[7] She was a contract player at Paramount Pictures,[8] best known for her role in the 1930s westerns Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936)[9][10] and Hills of Old Wyoming (1937).[11][12] She starred opposite actor William Boyd in both pictures.[13] Her other credits include Three Married Men (1936), Strike Me Pink (1936, as one of the Goldwyn Girls),[2] Florida Special (1936)[2] and Poppy (1936).[14]
Sheridan was married twice. Her first husband was screenwriter Alexander Sloan Nibley; they married in 1938[15] and divorced in 1942. They had a son, Philip Royall.[16][17] Her second husband was scientist and Physics Today editor David Abraham Katcher;[18] they married in 1947,[19] and had a daughter, Katherine (later Kravik). Sheridan died from cancer in 1982, at the age of 66, in Chevy Chase, Maryland.[20]