
Acting
Born May 28, 1928 · San Diego, California, USA
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 and ballet dancer brought roles in the transitional musicals that rounded off the golden age of MGM; most notable was Excuse My Dust. Most of her films were made under contract to MGM, which prided itself as family entertainment, but RKO, headed by the eccentric and controlling Howard Hughes, presented a very different creative challenge. Son of Sinbad, now a cult classic, was one of his many pet projects where he had a personal interest in re-designing the star's skimpy wardrobe. With each rehearsal, Forrest noticed her harem dance costume slowly disappearing, until it was barely compliant with the Motion Picture Production Code.[citation needed] In 1953, after moving to New York with her husband, writer and producer Milo Frank (who was hired to be head of casting for CBS), her film work transitioned to theatre and TV. She starred on Broadway in The Seven Year Itch, and appeared in major stage productions of Damn Yankees, Bus Stop, As You Like It and No No Nanette. Later she returned to Hollywood and continued working at RKO and Columbia Pictures. Her final film was RKO's While the City Sleeps in 1956, a murder mystery co-starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Vincent Price and her frequent collaborator Ida Lupino.

Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
2000

Ride The High Iron
1956

While the City Sleeps
1956
Want Ad Wedding
1955

Son of Sinbad
1955

Code Two
1953

The Strange Door
1951

Bannerline
1951

The Strip
1951

Excuse My Dust
1951

Hard, Fast and Beautiful!
1951

Vengeance Valley
1951

My Blue Heaven
1950

Mystery Street
1950

Whirlpool
1950

Never Fear
1950

Dancing in the Dark
1949

Flame of Youth
1949

Scene of the Crime
1949

Not Wanted
1949

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
1949

Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949

The Kissing Bandit
1948

Are You With It?
1948

Till the Clouds Roll By
1946