Jorja Curtright
Jorja Curtright | |
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| Born | August 14, 1923 |
| Died | May 11, 1985 (aged 61) |
Jorja Curtright, also known after marriage as Jorja Sheldon (1923–1985) was an American stage and film actress, who later became an interior designer.
Life
[edit | edit source]Jorja Curtright was born Aug 14, 1923, in Amarillo, Texas.[1] In her first film, the wartime propaganda film Hitler's Madman (1943), she played a young woman, Clara Janek, who leaps to her death from a hospital window rather than submit to Nazi sterilization.[2] In 1952 she married the novelist and producer Sidney Sheldon, and the pair had a daughter Mary.[3]
Jorja and Sidney Sheldon were good friends of Groucho Marx, who thought highly of her ability as an actress.[4] In later life Jorja Sheldon became an interior designer.[5] By the time of her death she had decorated over 200 homes for friends and celebrities across the United States. She also edited her husband's novels.[3]
She died May 11, 1985, aged 61, from a heart attack, at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.[3]
Filmography
[edit | edit source]- Hitler's Madman (1943).
- Whistle Stop (1946).
- Heaven Only Knows (1947).
- M (1951).
- Dangerous Assignment (1951). S1E11
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955).
- The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956).
- Bonanza (1966) S7E27
- I Dream of Jeannie (1966) S1E25
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