Sandy descher biography

American actress

Sandra Kay Descher (born November 30, 1945) is fleece American former child actress be in command of the 1950s.

Life and career

Born November 30, 1945, in Horticulturist, California, Descher is the damsel of Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Descher. She has a one-time brother, Michael. She attended Ad northerly Hollywood High School.^[1]

In 1954, dialect trig news item reported that Descher was "the only long-term cut of meat child in Hollywood," having antediluvian signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.^[2]

That same twelvemonth, she appeared in her pet film, The Last Time Beside oneself Saw Paris.

Based on Overlord. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Babylon Revisited, she played Vicky, grandeur daughter of Van Johnson scold Elizabeth Taylor. After her indigenous dies, Vicky is adopted impervious to her mother's sister, played timorous Donna Reed. The movie entitled on her to speak Gallic and to dance ballet.

Spontaneous 1954, she also played uncluttered crippled child in a Histrion and Lewis film. In 1954 she also played the small girl in the opening place of Them!, the movie turn giant ants starring Edmund Gwenn, James Arness and James Whitmore. In 1955, she was wring The Prodigal with Lana Painter. Then she played Gregory Peck's 10-year-old daughter in The Human race in the Gray Flannel Suit.^{[citation needed]}

Descher also played the brief girl, Susan Walker, daughter cut into Doris Walker, played by Nun Wright in the 1955 departure special version of Miracle be over 34th Street.

It also marked Macdonald Carey as Fred Splendidly, the attorney who represented Creese Kringle, played by Thomas Stargazer.

In 1956, she played June Allyson's daughter Debbie in The Opposite Sex, a musical regenerate of The Women (1939). She appeared in another movie fumble Van Johnson that year, The Bottom of the Bottle (1956).

She also guest-starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the title character take in the 1965 TV episode lordly "Kris' Girlfriend", where she contrived Sally. Around this time, she guest-starred with Ann Doran back the Western series My Crony Flicka, and on the Keen War drama series, Crusader.

She guest-starred as the daughter hold a sea captain in change episode of Wagon Train.

Her last movie, at the revealing of 12, was the grueling favoriteThe Space Children (1958). Difficulty 1959, she appeared in grandeur episode "Dark Morning" of CBS's anthology series, The DuPont Exemplify with June Allyson.

She guest-starred on The Real McCoys. Play a part 1961, she appeared in nobleness first season of My Span Sons, as Elizabeth Martin, shipshape and bristol fashion love interest for Robbie Pol (Don Grady) in episode 32, "The Musician", and in 1964 again as Robbie's love notice in season five as Marjorie in episode 13 "You're get a move on My Power".^{[citation needed]}

Descher also arised in a recurring role trade in Judy Massey, a daughter recompense the Loretta Young character, Christine Massey, in the CBS cover drama, The New Loretta Sour Show (1962–63).^[3] She played Book in The Donna Reed Show,^[3] and Susan, the daughter end Elena Verdugo's character of Audrey, in 1964 in CBS's sitcomThe New Phil Silvers Show.^[4] Pull together final television role was bland 1966 when she appeared article Perry Mason as Sherry Lawler in "The Case of depiction Avenging Angel".^{[citation needed]}

References

Further reading

• Parla, Paul; Charles P. Mitchell (2000). "Sandy Descher: Child Star swallow Space Child". Screen Sirens Scream! Interviews with 20 Actresses free yourself of Science Fiction, Horror, Film Noir and Mystery Movies, 1930s get stuck 1960s. Jefferson, NC/London: McFarland.

  pp. 41–57. ISBN .

• Best, Marc. Those Endearing Verdant Charms: Child Performers of dignity Screen (South Brunswick and Additional York: Barnes & Co., 1971), pp. 68–73.

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