Ann Sheridan on "What's My Line?'

The Oomph Girl makes like a Senorita.

[@bluestar9463]

Ann Sheridan was gorgeous. Sad that she was only here until 1967.

[@AvaRitaGrace]

Ann Sheridan was so BEAUTIFUL! I agree that she died too soon.She is one of the few classic actresses that I can not stop looking at. She should be remembered because of her talent, beauty, style, and graciousness.

[@marbil47]

COME NEXT SPRING was filmed in 1956 by Republic Studios...It starred Miss Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Edgar Buchannan and Walter Brennan..Miss Sheridan's performance was Academy Award deserving...Unfortunately, the studio did not keep its word to release it as an A Picture...They released it on a double bill...Ann Sheridan deserved better..With that said, I'll add that she is my all-time favorite anything on the screen...still is and I'm 76 years old...May God bless her memory.

[@tonynesbit9673]

She is unbelievably gorgeous,what a doll.

[@jamesbourget8350]

Just saw her in Nora Prentiss. Smashing performance, and what a singer! Really good film that must be seen by her fans. Very sad the studios didn't promote her singing more. She really could deliver a torch song.

[@keithkirk8697]

Indeed, must be seen by "noir" fans as well. Suspenseful and with psychological depths like a good novel, should be better known IMHO.

[@samjones2439]

I just saw it recently! Excellent movie!! Yes indeed she can sing. I enjoyed it. They had mini series on TCM. They showed 3 of her movies in a row. I had never watched her before. I was pleasantly surprised.

[@NYVoice]

She WAS a knockout. I love her in City For Conquest and They Drive By Night.

[@gh9111]

She was lovely. I really loved her in The Man Who Came to Dinner as the over the top pretentious actress.

[@tdrnkr]

I've always liked her voice. Among other things

[@windstorm1000]

First class lady and human being. Great comedianne and actress.

[@aapinor]

Love Ann , she was strong , athletic , beautiful, versatile with a nice singing voice! ❤❤❤❤❤❤👋👋👋👋👋👋👋

[@patriciamartinez5836]

Beautiful and so talented. Not given the credit she deserves

[@grabit1]

@roots66 I agree. She was probably still in her late 30's when this was filmed. And only 52 when she die, as you noted, in 1967. None of it detracts from the fact that Warner Brothers didn't know what an enormously great actress they had with her. Absolutely top-shelf, no matter what side of the tracks she was born on in her movies.

[@enniscorthylad]

I have been a fan of Ann Sheridan all my life. She was a brilliant actor and much under rated and unappreciated compared with other actresses of the 1940s'. This is the first time I have seen her as herself and I'm not disappointed.She comes across as a warm- hearted, natural and clever woman. She left us too soon and is greatly missed.

[@Daisnap]

Well put! All so true.

[@samjones2439]

Totally agree!!

[@mmjhcb]

She was always great, but she was particularly so in "The Man Who Came to Dinner." Just perfect.

[@mmjhcb]

I agree. Absolutely wonderful.

[@waynej2608]

Yes. She was as good, if not better than Bette Davis. Great comedic timing.

[@metrogoldwyn]

that she was.she was also doing "King's Row" at Warners at the same time and thought she wasn't particularly good in either.I think she was wonderful in both and always underrated.

[@samjones2439]

Excellent movie! The comedic timing. So good!

[@edwardjames50]

@rankpines49 ~ She WAS a fun person, and everyone who knew her adored her. If you notice, she stifles her laugh through this segment, because she had the most distinctive and contagious laugh in the business.

[@luvsgreta8487]

That's TRUE! And that's probably why she stifled it. I'm shocked none of the panelists recognized her voice. It's so distinctive.

[@DAVEJJR]

Please take me back.... I'm only 45 and truly wished I lived during the 30's and 40's..... Give me Ann any day over trash like the Kardashian sisters and mother!!!!!

[@msgigirogers1559]

She died so young. Gorgeous lady!!

[@jamesbourget8350]

Don't know why she said she wasn't a singer when asked. In fact, she was an exceptional singer!

[@AnnSheridanFanClub]

I think Ann looks great here and she is obviously having a good time. What more could you ask for?

[@metrogoldwyn]

agree.It's very easy to see why she was held in such high regard by nearly all her co-workers at Warner Bros

[@AnnSheridanFanClub]

@@metrogoldwyn Definitely!

[@suzannerinato8725]

Ann Sheridan always wonderful. Love her!

[@grabit1]

Ann Sheridan was a treasure, and probably the best actress at Warner Brothers (with apologies to Bette, Olivia and others). And she died far too young.

[@douglasraddi8593]

I fell in love with Ann Sheridan as a young boy watching angels with dirty faces. Those days had Olivia dehaviland, Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth, Barbara stanwyck. All talented and gorgeous actresses. Ann Sheridan is one of my favorites with bedroom eyes.

[@sageantone7291]

She owned the panel.

[@denzo30]

Ann Sheridan the "Oomph Gal" was absolutely beautiful.... She looks so much like Rita Hayworth is uncanny...... In fact they were often mistaken for each other -;) RIP Ann and thanks for the movies and memories!!!!

[@metrogoldwyn]

Actually,she was originally penciled in for the part of Virginia Brush in "Strawberry Blonde" but was engaged in a bitter feud with Warner Bros. at the time and the role eventually did go to Rita Hayworth,borrowed from Columbia Pictures

[@PoseidaDelAlba]

her spanish is perfect

[@gv4161960]

She actually lived in Mexico for a time from what I read, so she probably spoke Spanish fluently.

[@1983CUEVAS]

Her Spanish is perfect, I must be from growing up in Texas.

[@brucescott4261]

CLARA LOU "ANN" SHERIDAN (February 21st, 1915 - January 21st, 1967). I'm a huge fan of the immortal Ann Sheridan aka "The Oomph Gal." She was drop dead gorgeous: "City For Conquest," "Castle On The Hudson," "Torrid Zone," "Angels With Dirty Faces," "I Was A Male War Bride," "The Man Who Came To Dinner," "The Angels Wash Their Faces," "Dodge City," "Black Legion," "San Quentin," "Nora Prentiss," "Woman On The Run," etc. Ann Sheridan was exactly one month shy of her fifty-secondth birthday when that dreadful disease called cancer claimed this beautiful creature.

[@independentfilmchannel1476]

+Bruce Scott. You left out the best one she did: Kings Row. A genuine classic.

[@brucescott4261]

@@independentfilmchannel1476 I sure did, and more! One of the best! Thanks-a-million!

[@Daisnap]

Glad you mentioned Black Legion, a powerful film. Dick Foran, Helen Flint, and of course Bogie were great in it, too.

[@jmn1209]

One of my all time favorites!

[@robsieger1886]

I speak Spanish and lived in Spain, and I thought she did a very respectful serious, non-condescending accent. I mean she didn't talk like the equivalent of Charo, say. (I know Charo was not even around the entertainment business at the time.) or the way Arlene Francis did. I know Francis didn't do it on purpose. Francis was not a Spanish speaker but still sounded like she was doing a distaff Speedy Gonzalez, whereas Sheridan was from Texas, where there is a sizable population of Spanish speakers of mostly Mexican descent. Her knowledge of "Ojalá que sí", which translates roughly as "I hope so" but is actually more intense than that, was impressive, IMHO. Normally, I hope so is "Espero que sí". "Ojalá que sí" is more intense. I would actually not have been surprised if Rita Hayworth had pulled that off since Hayworth's father was Spanish (from Spain); Hayworth's real name was Margarita Cansino. It is a tragedy that she died so young from cancer. Apparently she was a heavy smoker.

[@Heres_Johnny.]

Rob Sieger I’m sure Arlene meant no disrespect.

[@robertwiegman1]

She was great. First time I saw Ann was in George Washington Slept Here :)

[@Solwa]

A Denton Texas beauty

[@pauldriscoll5356]

Great TEXAS gal. In WW2, when a USO show came to my Father's camp overseas, he was the was the one who hosted the Hollywood VIP's....one of which was Miss Sheridan. He had a great night with the stars over a bottle of Scotch..the other stars being Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown and Paulette Goddard.

[@brookehenson6123]

I'm 23 and I couldn't agree with you more! I hate that most people my age are so stupid as to worship and look up to embarrassing excuses for celebrities like the Kardashians and yet they don't even know the names of such classics as Ann Sheridan. I think I was born about 60-70 years too late!

[@grabit1]

@roots66 You are quite right. I remember when she died. It was in 1967. She was still one of Warner Brothers' greatest gifts. But like John Garfield, they had no idea what they had in her. She was marvelous.

[@daniellack3559]

I adored Ann Sheridan in the fabulous film They Drive By Night -1940..she was absolutely gorgeous in that movie...this was 12 yrs later and she still looked great...

[@robertcooke1774]

+daniel lack and bogey george raft

[@daniellack3559]

Robert...they were both wonderful in the film...it was interesting that Raft had the bigger and better role, but Bogey went on to greater stardom and fame in the years following...To me the real star of the film was the great dialogue as written by a guy named A.I. Bezzerides...it was just machine gun like throughout the film, and lastly don't forget the amazing performance by Ida Lupino, especially her court room crack up scene at the end...

[@luvsgreta8487]

@Ed Miller The DOORS made me do it! LOL...Yes, Ida was awesome. but the whole cast was wonderful and Annie perfect with her wisecrack timing and beauty and then her falling in love. Such a good movie.

[@holdyourhats]

Gorgeous!!!!

[@martincontreras444]

Una verdadera estrella. Muy bella carismática. El hecho de que otros en el medio no la valoraran no le quita relevancia esta mujer nos dejó un gran trabajo en sus grander interpretaciones. Se nos fue muy joven.

[@BluebirdFrank]

One of my very favourite actresses! 😍- and in my favourite film of all time “Angels with Dirty Faces”

[@ShawDAMAN]

I thought it was odd that the panel went on and on with "she doesn't sing" and Daly didn't correct them, because Sheridan actually did sing in some films, and rather well. Though I suppose by this point in her career she didn't sing much, still, misleading. ;)

[@tallpaul521]

Miss Sheridan, a great TEXAS gal. She came to my father's camp in WW2. My father passed away this week at 93 -- Major Edward Driscoll. Miss Sheridan was part of a USO tour..My dad killed a bottle of Scotch with Miss Sheridan, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and Paulette Goddard one evening. My dad passed away this week at 93.

[@AAA4509]

I first saw Ann with Jack Benny years ago and liked her ever since, a beautiful woman.

[@davemooreblues]

Her movies w/ James Cagney are among my all time favorites!

[@MOGGS1942]

I've been in love with Ms.Sheridan since I was a little boy watching her give it large to James Cagney in "Angels with dirty faces". No grapefruit in the face that time,Jimmy. She was also excellent in "They drive by night" where she took no prisoners re Raft and Bogart. She was a most enchanting woman, highly intelligent, funny, very beautiful, and as sexy as they come. Her heavy smoking would have gotten in the way, but perhaps I could have influenced her to have given it up. Cinema back in those days was awash with beautiful women, viz, Lana Turner ; Rita Hayworth ; Gene Tierney ; Barbara Stanwyck , et al, but Anne Sheridan was my real favourite, and seeing her again on this video, merely reaffirmed that..

[@daffy2u]

Ann Sheridan continues to amaze and fascinate us today...

[@Hyramess]

A darling lady! So good natured and such a good sport.

[@dalesalerno2474]

I'm a big fan of hers!

[@kennopalus]

Her face is so beuatiful.. the overly dramatic eyes , rounded check bones and babyish laugh lines . Did I forget to mention her Betty Boop lips ? I miss old Hollywood , I miss the faces , they had such beuatiful faces .

[@carolingianVI]

Check pictures of Ann from the mid 30s to the late 40s and you'll see the most beautiful and adorable girl. I even get the feeling Harry Cohn and Ed Judson changed Rita Hayworth late 30s look, based on Ann Sheridan's.

[@theJaydog]

Loved her in Torrid Zone!

[@alfredbonnabel7022]

LOVE LOVE ❤️ ANN SHERIDAN❣️

[@dennisgeorge3238]

Love John Garfield and Anne Sheridan movies together!!

[@makmelaf]

As a kid I watched Pistols N Petticoats on tv and I remember being very sad when she died.

[@hmaltravers]

Ann had a wonderful voice; rather sultry.

[@calalilygirl]

I love this show.

[@grabit1]

@ConfusedSponge Not offended at all. But she was all right here. Although it was 10 years later (and I remember) when she die at only age 52. She was arguably as wonderful as Lombard, Stanwyck, and some others I can think of. Not that I'm saying she is the most wonderful. But Warner Brothers had no idea how brilliant and wonderful she was. Best of all She was a Texas gal who knew the difference.

[@NakedTongues]

the crazy thing here is Annie ain't trying to hide her voice: it was ultra distinctive, but apparently just hidden enough behind the somewhat smooth spainish it slipped below the net.

[@Sctmpsn]

This episode of WML aired live at 10:30p on Sunday, May 19, 1957. This was a very sad time in her personal life. The love of her life, Steve Hannagan, died four years before after nine years together on and off. After his death, she gave up Hollywood and moved to Mexico City. All that got her was another failed affair and more unhappiness. Shortly after this program, Ann moved back to NYC, and after an 8-year courtship, they married. Two months later, cancer struck. She was gone in 4 months.

[@PascoZach]

@ConfusedSponge oh no. this date of this episode was July 1952, so this was a good 14 years before she passed away. I believe it was sometime in the summer of 66 when the cancer was found and she was dead the following January.

[@wiguy3]

@DAVEJJR You got that right Dave. Any 'Housewife of AnyDamnPlace' or Kardashian creature should be banned from TV. This woman had class and dignity.

[@VahanNisanian]

This is from July 20, 1952. The first episode to be saved after Producer Gil Fates put an end to the deplorable practice CBS had for this show, in which they would destroy an episode after it aired once.

[@grabit1]

She was born in Texas, so Spanish may have come fairly naturally to her in any event.

[@tallpaul521]

What a great gal and simply gorgeous. Miss Sheridan came to my father's base overseas in WW2 with a USO troupe, which also included Paulette Goddard, Pat O'Brien, and Joe. E. Brown. One night, my father and the Hollywood folk kllled a bottle of Scotch togethet. They also played a baseball game with the troops. Goddard, in a skirt (sans underwear) played third base!!!

[@roots66]

@ConfusedSponge Ann died in 1967. I don't know the exact date for this clip but it's definitely from the early '50s. A lot of guests had this problem on the "What's My Line" stage--the acoustics and lack of monitors often made it difficult for the contestants and the panel to hear each other properly.

[@FergusMcDopey]

Sheridan was gorgeous! And good Spanish speaking ability, too! PS - Bennett in a business suit?!?! Must be dress-down day @ WML?

[@degorman4673]

Ann was an Irish working class beauty.

[@JFGecik]

It was Ginger Rogers, a relative of his wife.

[@randysills4418]

Bennet Cerf's wife was Ginger Roger's first cousin...

[@fanorama1]

they hardly never fail to guess the mystery guest..

[@tomitstube]

@delightfulstar ~ apparently ms. sheridan "loathed the nickname" - "oomph girls". she wanted to be known for more than just a pretty face and thought the reference "was crap".

[@impCaesarAvg]

@roots66 Yeah, we hear clearly because they're speaking into the mic. We don't get how hard it can be for the guests and panelists to hear each other. Anyhow, I'm always glad to see these old episodes of WML.

[@claudiov5554]

She spoke just a few words in spanish but did it very well she probably speaks spanish

[@pukulu]

Ann Sheridan was known for her movies with James Cagney.

[@63utuber]

Miss America thought so too.

[@willamtomczak6032]

Back then excellent acting

[@DKenUCLA]

john daly always looks annoyed when hal block begins speaking.

[@bluestar9463]

Documented that John Daly never liked Hal Block, who was always rude and overbearing to woman guests.

[@infrantasi]

The straps on Arlene's dress just scream "Frump Queen" and her head looks like Cliff Robertson's hairpiece. But Ann is stunning. Loved her in "Song of Norway", she had a gorgeous speaking voice.

[@anneroy4560]

Arlene does not look good with her hair so dark ... odd frock which is unusual for her ...

[@DA90027]

This was late 1950s not early. She died about 10 years after this! She understands the questions fine she is just trying to be mysterious and not give it away.

[@community1949]

If this is 1952 I was 3 and a sibling was 1. We were in bed when this came on.

[@mctalks]

I always wondered if the celebrities liked it when they stumped the panel or better when they were guessed rather quickly despite fake voices and such because they were so famous?

[@tomitstube]

@ConfusedSponge ~ i found a source that says this show is from august 20, 1952.

[@TheBatugan77]

Wow...

[@FENVYNVYR]

WOW

[@andrewgilmore7669]

I'm about 20 years younger than you and I thoroughly agree.

[@hebneh]

Usually the panelists managed to guess the celebrity, often because the famous person was in NYC for some event or performance which had been publicized. Ann totally threw them all by speaking Spanish well.

[@edwardjames50]

@garlandgirl22 ~ He was also married to Sylvia Sidney, through marriage, lol.

[@gv4161960]

The show was from 1952...or so Ann's IMDB entry says.

[@grabit1]

@ConfusedSponge I don't believe so. This was about 10 years earlier, although she did die far too young. Of cancer, only at age 52, in 1967. I remember the day.

[@MOGGS1942]

@AvaRitaGrace .I couldn't agree more with you.

[@grabit1]

@grabit1 Nope. John Garfield too. Which is no knock on Warners, or saying that they loved movies less than us. They just loved them for different reasons.

[@fanorama1]

woman on the run

[@grabit1]

@gv416 Yup. And not just beautiful. I wonder if Warner Brothers ever quite figured out what a gift they had with her.

[@michaelmantle6043]

This episode aired in 1952, and not in 1957 or any other year as other people have commented. Although Bennett Cerf was on the panel, it was as a guest panelist, a role in which he appeared multiple times before his permanent inclusion in 1953, after Hal Block was fired from the show. Before then, Block was a permanent panelist, but was finally let go for being outwardly obnoxious and for his frequent sexual innuendos towards female contestants, after being "warned" many times by the show's producers,

[@Sam73157910]

+Michael Mantle They should have gotten rid of that Hal Block after thje first show he was on. Is he supposed to be a comedian?All he did was waste time. Bennett had a smart mouht at imes, but he was infinitely better than that Block.

[@krasnykavkaz]

Indeed, Frank Lloyd Wright commented on the poor acoustics when he was the Mystery Guest.

[@wildnites558]

Ann definitely left us too early. She was a heavy smoker for many years and eventually developed lung cancer. I believe she started developing cancer while on the set of the "Pistols and Petticoats" television show. Only 52. She died pretty.

[@annseemann346]

No

[@pattysims7236]

It was actually esophageal cancer.

[@eemoogee160]

@@annseemann346 no what?

[@lynnturman8157]

Just saw her in Nora Prentiss last night. Don't understand why she wasn't a bigger star. She was amazing!

[@wildbillhackett]

I thought she was pretty darn big. She was in everything.

[@lynnturman8157]

@@wildbillhackett Yeah, she worked a lot but I wouldn't say she was in the top tier of stars like Bogart or Bette Davis or Gable or Cary Grant, several others. She was one or two tiers down the pecking order from the A list stars. But she definitely deserved to be up there with them, IMO.

[@wildbillhackett]

I think she was probably as famous as anybody during the 40's, but for some odd reason she hasn't been remembered for posterity the way names like Ingrid Bergman or Loretta Young have. And going the other way, you have actresses like Rita Hayworth and Great Garbo where everybody remembers their names but most people couldn't tell you a single film either of them did (and there weren't many good ones).

[@lynnturman8157]

@@wildbillhackett yeah, the 40s was definitely her most successful decade. I just think she's great. She was beautiful but also seemed very down to earth. Pretty rare combination.

[@wildbillhackett]

If you get a chance, search YT for some out-takes of her reactions during film flubs. She was a hoot.

[@calalilygirl]

@randrall Yes, she's very appealing.

[@rem2267]

A very funny one! Are you blond today?

[@billbright1755]

She would be 104 years old now.

[@MOGGS1942]

@gv416 She sure was.

[@1983CUEVAS]

@MPL029 How didn't drink and smoke back in the add. There was nothing else to do.

[@soulierinvestments]

Block is appalling.