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Sally Forrest

Sally Forrest

Actor · 1928 – 2015 · 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.

Movies24

  • Movie5.8

    Till the Clouds Roll By

    1946 · 30 votes

  • Movie6.9

    While the City Sleeps

    1956 · 150 votes

  • Movie6.7
  • Movie5.4

    Vengeance Valley

    1951 · 60 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Whirlpool

    1950 · 103 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Mystery Street

    1950 · 68 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Bannerline

    1951 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Dancing in the Dark

    1949 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Scene of the Crime

    1949 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Not Wanted

    1949 · 35 votes

  • Movie6.2
  • Movie5.9

    The Strip

    1951 · 16 votes

  • Movie7.5

    My Blue Heaven

    1950 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Strange Door

    1951 · 33 votes

  • Movie5.2

    The Kissing Bandit

    1948 · 6 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Son of Sinbad

    1955 · 18 votes

  • Movie9.0
  • Movie7.3
  • Movie10.0

    Ride The High Iron

    1956 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Never Fear

    1950 · 30 votes

  • Movie4.5

    Are You With It?

    1948 · 6 votes

  • Movie7.8

    Excuse My Dust

    1951 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Code Two

    1953 · 6 votes

  • Movie10.0

    Flame of Youth

    1949 · 1 votes

Series11

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV6.4
  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV6.7

    Family Affair

    1966 · 43 votes

  • TV5.1

    Suspense

    1949 · 12 votes

  • TV6.7

    Lux Video Theatre

    1950 · 7 votes

  • TV6.8
  • TV7.2