Sheila Browning
Sheila Browning (born 1918) also known as Sheila Garrett or Sheila Garrett Browning, is an American film actress.[1]
Career
Sheila Browning was born in Kansas City, USA, in about 1918. Browning was one of the 30 beautiful "Ziegfeld Girls" in the lavish and expensive film production The Great Ziegfeld.
Family life
In 1934 Browning (then aged 17) met actor Henry Wilcoxon in Hollywood. She was known to friends as "Bonnie" when she was introduced to Wilcoxon by her older sister Lynn Browning. Wilcoxon disliked her surname "Browning", and persuaded her to change the name to "Garrett". After the premiere of The Great Ziegfeld in Los Angeles, she married Wilcoxon, at the home of his friends Heather Angel and Ralph Forbes, on 26 June 1936.[2] They travelled to Egypt in May of the next year, and in London they visited friends and members of his family. They had booked seats for the coronation of George VI in Westminster Abbey, but did not attend as Wilcoxon had to return to Hollywood for retakes of Souls at Sea. Soon after enjoying a large and lavish party at their Malibu Canyon home, among others attended by Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Colin Tapley, Ralph Forbes and Heather Angel, Browning sued for divorce, stating "Both Henry and I have known for some time this would never work out". They were divorced on 2 July 1937, when her age was listed as 19.[3]
Selected filmography
- The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
References
- ↑ http://www.altfg.com/film/virginia-bruce-movies/
- ↑ Katherine Orrison and Henry Wilcoxon, Lionheart in Hollywood, p.68-69
- ↑ Lionheart in Hollywood, p.106-107
Bibliography
- Wilcoxon, Henry; Orrison, Katherine (1991). Lionheart in Hollywood: the autobiography of Henry Wilcoxon. Metuchen, NJ and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 0-8108-2476-0.