Sheree North
| Sheree North | |
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North in 1975
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| Born |
Dawn Shirley Crang January 17, 1932 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | November 4, 2005 (aged 73) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Complications following surgery |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, dancer |
| Years active | 1951–1998 |
| Spouse(s) | Fred Bessire (1948–1953; divorced) John "Bud" Freeman (1955–1956; divorced) Dr. Gerhardt Sommer (1958–1963; divorced) Phillip Alan Norman (2003–2005; her death) |
| Children | Dawn Erica Eve |
Sheree North (born Dawn Shirley Crang; January 17, 1932 – November 4, 2005) was an American film and television actress, dancer, and singer, known for being one of 20th Century-Fox's intended successors to Marilyn Monroe.
North was born as Dawn Shirley Crang in Los Angeles, California, on January 17, 1932, the daughter of June Shoard and Richard Crang. Following her mother's remarriage to Edward Bethel, she was known as Dawn Shirley Bethel.
She began dancing in USO shows during World War II at age ten. In 1948, she married Fred Bessire. She bore her first child at age 17 in 1949, and continued dancing in clubs under the stage name Shirley Mae Bessire.
North made her film début as an uncredited extra in Excuse My Dust (1951). She was then spotted by a choreographer performing at the Macayo Club in Santa Monica, and was cast as a chorus girl in the 1953 film Here Come the Girls, starring Bob Hope. Around that time, she adopted the stage name Sheree North. She made her Broadway début in the musical Hazel Flagg, for which she won a Theatre World Award. She reprised her role in the film version, Living It Up (1954), starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. In early 1954, aged 22, she appeared in a live TV version of Cole Porter's Anything Goes on The Colgate Comedy Hour, with Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, and Bert Lahr.
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