Fans discuss whether actress Sheree North appeared in The Switch and speculate about her health and career decline since the 1960s.
Tonight episode The Switch gave us some fine moments with Kramer's mom, Babs. If that was Sheree North, an actress from the early 1960's (??) I fear something happened to her, maybe a stroke or early stages of Parkinsons. I always thought she was a very underrated actress, and was happy to see her still performing.
Dolores
[email] (kevin mason) reponds:
More than you wanted to know about Sheree North, from Microsoft Cinemania 96:
Sheree North (1933 - ) Biography from Katz's Film Encyclopedia
A professional dancer at age 10, a bride at 15 and a mother at 16, she modeled and danced in clubs and for under-the-counter film loops before making her feature film debut, an unbilled bit, in EXCUSE MY DUST (1951). She first attracted attention in 1953 with a wild dance number in the Broadway musical Hazel Flagg and returned to Hollywood the following year to repeat the role in the screen adaptation of the play, the Martin-Lewis comedy vehicle LIVING IT UP (1954). In 1954 she was signed by Fox and groomed by the studio as a platinum-blonde sexpot and a potential substitute for their often-reluctant star, Marilyn Monroe. After a big publicity buildup, Miss North starred in several light Fox productions, proving herself a talented comedienne as well as a bouncy dancer and later also a passable dramatic actress. But by 1958 she had been replaced as the studio's resident "dumb blonde" by the likes of Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. She disappeared from the screen for nearly a decade, during which she performed in stock, on the road, and on TV. She returned to films in the late 60s, mainly in character roles.
--Scott Dalrymple
On 12 Mar 1996 00:08:20 -0500, [email] (AthenaDal) was urged to share:
. . . i think what happened to her is gravity.