1928-05-28 ( 96 years old ) in San Diego, California, USA
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.
Movies
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
2000-06-27
Ride The High Iron
1956-12-01
While the City Sleeps
1956-04-19
Want Ad Wedding
1955-11-02
Son of Sinbad
1955-06-02
Code Two
1953-04-24
Bannerline
1951-10-12
The Strip
1951-08-31
Excuse My Dust
1951-06-27
The Strange Door
1951-06-21
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
1951-05-23
Vengeance Valley
1951-02-14
My Blue Heaven
1950-09-15
Mystery Street
1950-06-23
Whirlpool
1950-01-13
Never Fear
1950-01-04
Dancing in the Dark
1949-12-02
Flame of Youth
1949-09-22
Scene of the Crime
1949-07-28
Not Wanted
1949-06-24
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
1949-04-15
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949-03-09
The Kissing Bandit
1948-11-14
Are You With It?
1948-03-19
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946-12-05
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