Sally Forrest

Acting

Sally Forrest

Born May 28, 1928 · San Diego, California, USA

Died March 15, 2015 · aged 86

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 …

Known For

Till the Clouds Roll ByTill the Clouds Roll By · 1946
Till the Clouds Roll By
5.81946
MovieMusic
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
Mystery StreetMystery Street · 1950
Mystery Street
6.81950
MovieCrimeThriller
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
While the City SleepsWhile the City Sleeps · 1956
While the City Sleeps
6.91956
MovieThrillerDrama
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
WhirlpoolWhirlpool · 1950
Whirlpool
6.41950
MovieThrillerCrime
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
My Blue HeavenMy Blue Heaven · 1950
My Blue Heaven
7.51950
MovieDramaMusic
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
Vengeance ValleyVengeance Valley · 1951
Vengeance Valley
5.41951
MovieWestern
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.
BannerlineBannerline · 1951
Bannerline
6.81951
MovieDrama
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
Take Me Out to the Ball GameTake Me Out to the Ball Game · 1949
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
6.71949
MovieComedyRomance
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.

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Are You With It?Are You With It? · 1948
Are You With It?
4.51948
MovieMystery
Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company when he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival. His knowledge of mathematics makes him a natural as an assistant at the wheel of fortune. His fiancée begs him to return to his job but he refuses, so she joins the carnival and becomes a striptease artist. When Milton attempts to drag her off the stage, a brawling mêlée breaks out and the entire troupe is arrested by the local police. The carnival is sold but Milton reveals that the new owner has conspired to defraud the insurance company. The insurance company has to accept the carnival in lieu of the money owed, and they allow Milton and his fiancée, Vivian, to stay with and help run the carnival.

Dancer (uncredited)