Sally forest

Born on May 28, 1928 in San Diego (California), Katherine Sally Feeney (real name of Sally Forrest) was the daughter of a couple of dancers, so she soon signed up for dance classes. Right after graduating high school, her parents moved to Hollywood when she was hired by MGM to appear as a dancer in films like Until the Clouds Roll Over , co-directed by Vincente Minnelli .

Her work was so convincing that in 1949 she was cast as the lead in Not Wanted , a film written by Ida Lupino , who also played her mother, and she ended up taking over the production (it was her debut feature) when the initially expected professional, Elmer Clifton , suffered a heart attack. The girl played a young woman who, after an unwanted pregnancy, gives her son up for adoption, but later regrets it and tries to get him back.

Lupino was so pleased with her work that soon after she made her a dancer in Never Fear and a tennis player in Hard, Fast and Beautiful . She shared the screen with Burt Lancaster in Valley of Vengeance , with Mickey Rooney in The Strip , and Charles Laughton in The Strange Door . But her most remembered role is undoubtedly the engaged girlfriend of the womanizing journalist played by Dana Andrews in While New York Sleeps , one of the most rounded films by the master Fritz Lang , where she would once again share the screen with Lupino.

She married the producer Milo O.Frank in August 1951, with whom she moved to New York. There she worked in the Broadway theater, in titles such as Temptation lives upstairs , where she embodied the role that would go to Marilyn Monroe on the screen . During the 50s, and until the early 60s, she took part in various television series such as Cuero Crudo .