Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameGeorge BRENT 
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25Birth Date15 Mar 1904
Birth PlaceBallinasloe, County Galway, Ireland
Death Date26 Mar 1987 Age: 83
Death PlaceSolana Beach, San Diego County, California
Burial MemoCremated, Ashes scattered at sea
OccupationHollywood Actor
Spouses
Birth Date21 Feb 1915
Birth PlaceDenton, Denton County, Texas
Death Date21 Jan 1967 Age: 51
Death PlaceLos Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
Burial PlaceHollywood, Los Angeles County, California, Hollywood Forever Cemetery
MemoChapel Columbarium, 2nd floor, East Wall, Tier 3, Niche 24
OccupationHollywood Actor
FatherGeorge Washington SHERIDAN (1875-1938)
MotherLula Stuart WARREN (1877-1946)
Family ID3989
Marr Date5 May 1942
Marr PlacePalm Beach County, Florida
Div Date5 May 1943
Div PlaceCuernavaca, Mexico
Notes for George BRENT
Actor. He was born in Ballinasloe (Ireland) and died in Solana Beach (California). He is best known for his films with Bette Davis and the numerous films he made as a leading man/supporting actor under contract to Warner Bros. Pictures during the 1930s and 1940s. Among others, he appeared in "Under Suspicion" (1930), "42nd Street" (1933), "The Painted Veil" (1934), "Jezebel" (1938), "Dark Victory" (1939), "The Spiral Staircase" (1946), "Bride for Sale" (1949), "Death of a Scoundrel" (1956) and "Born Again" (1978), his last film. He was married to actresses Ann Sheridan, Ruth Chatterton and Constance Worth.
Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni
On Find A Grave.
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Actual surname is Nolan.
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Hollywood actors Ann Sheridan and George Brent marry in Palm Beach, Florida.
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(1) Sep 2000: RootsWeb WorldConnect Cole, Warren and Roberts Family Tree Barbara Norvell April 2003: The death date of Scott McKay and of George Brent are the same. While this is possible, it is not probable. May be a typo for one of them.
Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni
On Find A Grave.
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Actual surname is Nolan.
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Hollywood actors Ann Sheridan and George Brent marry in Palm Beach, Florida.
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(1) Sep 2000: RootsWeb WorldConnect Cole, Warren and Roberts Family Tree Barbara Norvell April 2003: The death date of Scott McKay and of George Brent are the same. While this is possible, it is not probable. May be a typo for one of them.
Notes for Clara Lou “Ann” (Spouse 1)
Hollywood actors Ann Sheridan and George Brent marry in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Actress. The youngest of five children, the daughter of a Texas auto mechanic and a housewife, Ann Sheridan came to Hollywood as the 18-year-old winner of Paramount's 1933 "Search for Beauty" contest, and made her film debut in a 1934 film of the same name. She was a college student at North Texas State Teacher's College, when her sister thought she was beautiful enough to send in a picture of Ann in a bathing suit to Paramount Pictures. Billed under her real name, she played small parts in "Come on, Marines," "The Lemon Drop Kid," "Ladies Should Listen," "Murder at the Vanities," "Bolero," "Kiss and Make Up" and "College Rhythm" (all in 1934), before landing her first leading role, billed as Ann Sheridan, in "Rocky Mountain Mystery" (1935), a Western whodunit. Paramount kept her busy throughout 1935 with mostly small, supporting roles, even using her as a body double and she left the studio, winding up at Warner Bros., who billed her as the "Oomph Girl." In 1936, she had supporting roles in "Black Legion" and "Sing Me a Love Song" before finally landing a leading role in "The Great O'Malley" (1937), starring Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart. A succession of B pictures followed until director Michael Curtiz gave her the role of a strong-minded slum girl in his gangster drama "Angels With Dirty Faces" in 1938. The success of that film earned Sheridan better roles in bigger pictures through the end of the 1930s and into the 1940s, including "Torrid Zone" and "They Drive by Night" (both 1940), "Honeymoon for Three" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (both 1941). She delivered what may have been the finest performance of her career as 'Randy Monoghan', the loyal small-town girl in "Kings Row" (1942, co-starring Ronald Reagan). She won excellent reviews in the role and Warners responded by putting her in other big-budget films throughout the 1940s, including "George Washington Slept Here," "Thank Your Lucky Stars," "Edge of Darkness," "Shine On, Harvest Moon," "Nora Prentiss," "The Unfaithful" and "Silver River." She left the studio after making an unbilled guest appearance in "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" (1948). As a freelance actor, she starred or co-starred in "Good Sam" (1948), "I Was a Male War Bride" (1949, co-starring Cary Grant and directed by Howard Hawks), "Stella and Woman on the Run" (both 1950), "Steel Town," "Just Across the Street" (both 1952), "Take Me to Town," "Appointment in Honduras," (both 1953), "Come Next Spring," "The Opposite Sex" (both 1956) and "The Woman and The Hunter" (1957). She worked several years in the theatre before turning to TV, where she starred in the daytime soap opera "Another World" (1965 to 1966) and the sitcom "Pistols and Petticoats" (1966 to 1967). A chain smoker, Ann Sheridan died of throat cancer at age 51 in 1967. Her first two husbands were actors, Edward Norris (1936 to 1939) and George Brent (1942 to 1943).
Bio by: Craig Johnson
(1) Sep 2000: RootsWeb WorldConnect Cole, Warren and Roberts Family Tree Barbara Norvell April 2003:
On Find A Grave.
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Actress. The youngest of five children, the daughter of a Texas auto mechanic and a housewife, Ann Sheridan came to Hollywood as the 18-year-old winner of Paramount's 1933 "Search for Beauty" contest, and made her film debut in a 1934 film of the same name. She was a college student at North Texas State Teacher's College, when her sister thought she was beautiful enough to send in a picture of Ann in a bathing suit to Paramount Pictures. Billed under her real name, she played small parts in "Come on, Marines," "The Lemon Drop Kid," "Ladies Should Listen," "Murder at the Vanities," "Bolero," "Kiss and Make Up" and "College Rhythm" (all in 1934), before landing her first leading role, billed as Ann Sheridan, in "Rocky Mountain Mystery" (1935), a Western whodunit. Paramount kept her busy throughout 1935 with mostly small, supporting roles, even using her as a body double and she left the studio, winding up at Warner Bros., who billed her as the "Oomph Girl." In 1936, she had supporting roles in "Black Legion" and "Sing Me a Love Song" before finally landing a leading role in "The Great O'Malley" (1937), starring Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart. A succession of B pictures followed until director Michael Curtiz gave her the role of a strong-minded slum girl in his gangster drama "Angels With Dirty Faces" in 1938. The success of that film earned Sheridan better roles in bigger pictures through the end of the 1930s and into the 1940s, including "Torrid Zone" and "They Drive by Night" (both 1940), "Honeymoon for Three" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (both 1941). She delivered what may have been the finest performance of her career as 'Randy Monoghan', the loyal small-town girl in "Kings Row" (1942, co-starring Ronald Reagan). She won excellent reviews in the role and Warners responded by putting her in other big-budget films throughout the 1940s, including "George Washington Slept Here," "Thank Your Lucky Stars," "Edge of Darkness," "Shine On, Harvest Moon," "Nora Prentiss," "The Unfaithful" and "Silver River." She left the studio after making an unbilled guest appearance in "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" (1948). As a freelance actor, she starred or co-starred in "Good Sam" (1948), "I Was a Male War Bride" (1949, co-starring Cary Grant and directed by Howard Hawks), "Stella and Woman on the Run" (both 1950), "Steel Town," "Just Across the Street" (both 1952), "Take Me to Town," "Appointment in Honduras," (both 1953), "Come Next Spring," "The Opposite Sex" (both 1956) and "The Woman and The Hunter" (1957). She worked several years in the theatre before turning to TV, where she starred in the daytime soap opera "Another World" (1965 to 1966) and the sitcom "Pistols and Petticoats" (1966 to 1967). A chain smoker, Ann Sheridan died of throat cancer at age 51 in 1967. Her first two husbands were actors, Edward Norris (1936 to 1939) and George Brent (1942 to 1943).
Bio by: Craig Johnson
(1) Sep 2000: RootsWeb WorldConnect Cole, Warren and Roberts Family Tree Barbara Norvell April 2003:
On Find A Grave.
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