Sally Forrest
Biography
Sally Forrest (born Katherine Feeney) was an American film, stage and TV actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Forrest began her film career in the 1940s as a chorus dancer in MGM musicals. She made her acting debut in Not Wanted, written and produced by Ida Lupino. The film's controversial subject of unwed motherhood was a raw and unsentimental view of a condition that was rarely explored by Hollywood at that time. Forrest starred in two more Lupino projects, Never Fear and Hard, Fast and Beautiful, as well as other film noir films, including Mystery Street, directed by John Sturges, and the star-studded While the City Sleeps, directed by Fritz Lang. Her musical background and training as a jazz and ballet dancer brought roles in the transitional musicals that rounded off the golden age of MGM; most notable was Excuse My Dust. Most of her films were made under contract to MGM, which prided itself as family entertainment, but RKO, headed by the eccentric and controlling Howard Hughes, presented a very different creative challenge. Son of Sinbad, now a cult classic, was one of his many pet projects where he had a personal interest in re-designing the star's skimpy wardrobe. With each rehearsal, Forrest noticed her harem dance costume slowly disappearing, until it was barely compliant with the Motion Picture Production Code.[citation needed] In 1953, after moving to New York with her husband, writer and producer Milo Frank (who was hired to be head of casting for CBS), her film work transitioned to theatre and TV. She starred on Broadway in The Seven Year Itch, and appeared in major stage productions of Damn Yankees, Bus Stop, As You Like It and No No Nanette. Later she returned to Hollywood and continued working at RKO and Columbia Pictures. Her final film was RKO's While the City Sleeps in 1956, a murder mystery co-starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Vincent Price and her frequent collaborator Ida Lupino.
Known For
All Movies (25)
- Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies2000 · as Self
- Ride The High Iron1956 · as Elsie Vanders
- While the City Sleeps1956 · as Nancy Liggett
- Want Ad Wedding1955 · as Polly Parker
- Son of Sinbad1955 · as Ameer
- Code Two1953 · as Mary Hartley
- The Strange Door1951 · as Blanche de Maletroit
- Bannerline1951 · as Richie Loomis
- The Strip1951 · as Jane Tafford
- Excuse My Dust1951 · as Liz Bullitt
- Hard, Fast and Beautiful!1951 · as Florence Farley
- Vengeance Valley1951 · as Lily Fasken
- My Blue Heaven1950
- Mystery Street1950 · as Grace Shanway
- Whirlpool1950 · as Minor Role (uncredited)
- Never Fear1950 · as Carol Williams
- Dancing in the Dark1949 · as Secretary
- Flame of Youth1949 · as Miss O'Brien
- Scene of the Crime1949
- Not Wanted1949 · as Sally Kelton
- Mr. Belvedere Goes to College1949 · as Miss Cadwaller
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game1949
- The Kissing Bandit1948 · as Fiesta Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
- Are You With It?1948 · as Dancer (uncredited)
- Till the Clouds Roll By1946 · as Showgirl (uncredited)
All TV Shows (14)
- Family Affair1966
- Rawhide1959 · as Clovis Lindstrom
- Rawhide1959 · as Loreen Bouquet
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show1956 · as Self
- The Millionaire1955 · as Emily Baker
- Climax!1954 · as Jean Hamilton / Cherry Carson
- Climax!1954
- Climax!1954 · as Nina
- General Electric Theater1953 · as Kristie North
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951
- Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Amy Boyd
- Suspense1949
- Studio One1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self