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North (birthday January 17, 1932
– November 4, 2005) was an actress, singer, and dancer.
Born as Dawn Shirley Crang in Los Angeles,
California, she began dancing in USO shows during World War II at age 10. At
15, she married Fred Bessire and had a child at 16. She continued dancing in
clubs under the moniker Shirley Mae Bessire.
After being spotted by a
choreographer performing at the Macayo Club in Santa Monica, North 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 and made her Broadway
debut in the musical Hazel Flagg. She went on to reprise her role in the
film version Living It Up.
In 1954, North signed on with 20th
Century-Fox. The following year, she won the lead role in How to Be Very,
Very Popular, a role that was initially rejected by Marilyn Monroe. Media
attention over the choice of North in the role that Monroe rejected resulted in
North appearing on the cover of Life magazine with the coverline
"Sheree North Takes Over From Marilyn Monroe". Film historians, then
and now, continue to cite North's electrically charged dancing to "Shake,
Rattle and Roll", as the film's most memorable scene. After the success of
How to Be Very, Very Popular, North was groomed by Fox as the "new
Marilyn Monroe". However, the studio soon lost interest in promoting her
and focused attention on a new Monroe-esque actress, Jayne Mansfield. Decades
later, North would play Monroe's mother in the 1980 television movie Marilyn:
The Untold Story.
In the 1960s, she returned to
Broadway in the very successful musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale,
which featured Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, North appeared in guest spots on Hawaii
Five-O, Magnum, P.I., The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which she
played Lou Grant's old flame, and The Golden Girls, in which she played
Blanche's sister, Virginia.
Her film roles included one as a
fugitive-aiding photographer in Don Siegel's Charley Varrick and as John
Wayne's long-lost love in the actor's final film, The Shootist.
In the 1990s, she appeared as Kramer's
mother, Babs Kramer, in two episodes of the TV series Seinfeld. North's
last onscreen role came in the 1998 John Landis film Susan's Plan.
North was married four times and had two children.
In 1948, at age 15, she married Fred Bessire, a draftsman with whom she had a
daughter, Dawn. The marriage ended in 1953. In 1955, she married music
publisher John "Bud" Freedman, but the marriage ended a year later.
Her third marriage to psychologist Gerhardt Sommer resulted in another
daughter, Erica Eve, but that marriage also ended in divorce in 1963.
At the time of her death, North
was married to Philip Norman.
On November
4, 2005, North died from complications during unspecified surgery at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center.
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