Sally Forrest

Sally Forrest

Known for

Acting

Born

May 28, 1928

Birthplace

San Diego, California, USA

Died

March 15, 2015 (aged 86)

Biography

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...

Best known work

While the City Sleeps
While the City Sleeps
1956
Whirlpool
Whirlpool
1950
Mystery Street
Mystery Street
1950
Vengeance Valley
Vengeance Valley
1951
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949
Rawhide
Rawhide
1959
Family Affair
Family Affair
1966
Not Wanted
Not Wanted
1949
The Strange Door
The Strange Door
1951
Till the Clouds Roll By
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946

Filmography

  1. 2000

    Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

    as Self

  2. 1966

    Family AffairTV
  3. 1959

    RawhideTV

    as Clovis Lindstrom (1 episode), as Loreen Bouquet (1 episode)

  4. 1956

    Ride The High Iron

    as Elsie Vanders

  5. 1956

    The Dinah Shore Chevy ShowTV

    as Self (3 episodes)

  6. 1956

    While the City Sleeps

    as Nancy Liggett

  7. 1955

    Want Ad Wedding

    as Polly Parker

  8. 1955

  9. 1955

    The MillionaireTV

    as Emily Baker (1 episode)

  10. 1954

    Climax!TV

    as Jean Hamilton / Cherry Carson (1 episode), as Nina (1 episode)

  11. 1953

    Code Two

    as Mary Hartley

  12. 1953

    General Electric TheaterTV

    as Kristie North (1 episode)

  13. 1951

    The Strange Door

    as Blanche de Maletroit

  14. 1951

    Bannerline

    as Richie Loomis

  15. 1951

  16. 1951

    The Strip

    as Jane Tafford

  17. 1951

    Excuse My Dust

    as Liz Bullitt

  18. 1951

    Hard, Fast and Beautiful!

    as Florence Farley

  19. 1951

    Vengeance Valley

    as Lily Fasken

  20. 1950

    Lux Video TheatreTV

    as Amy Boyd (1 episode)

  21. 1950

  22. 1950

    Mystery Street

    as Grace Shanway

  23. 1950

    Whirlpool

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  24. 1950

    Never Fear

    as Carol Williams

  25. 1949

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