Jorja Curtright
{{Short description|American actress and interior designer}}
Jorja Curtright, also known after marriage as Jorja Sheldon (1923–1985) was an American stage and film actress, who later became an interior designer.
Life
Jorja Curtright was born Aug 14, 1923, in Amarillo, Texas.{{cite encyclopedia | title=Curtright, Jorja (1923–1985) | url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/curtright-jorja-1923-1985 | editor1=Anne Commire| editor1-link=Anne Commire | editor2=Deborah Klezmer | encyclopedia=Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages | year=2006 | access-date=11 November 2023 | via=Encyclopedia.com }} In her first film, the wartime propaganda film Hitler's Madman (1943), she played a young woman, Clara Janek, who leaps to her death from a hospital window rather than submit to Nazi sterilization.{{cite book | first=Bob | last=Herzberg | title=The Third Reich on Screen, 1929-2015 | date=19 November 2016 | page=101 | publisher=McFarland | isbn=9781476626970 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aH2HDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT101 }} In 1952 she married the novelist and producer Sidney Sheldon, and the pair had a daughter Mary.{{cite news | title=Jorja Sheldon, 64; Decorator, Actress Edited Husband's Work | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | date=May 14, 1985 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-14-me-19054-story.html | access-date=November 14, 2023 }}
Jorja and Sidney Sheldon were good friends of Groucho Marx, who thought highly of her ability as an actress.{{cite book | first=Charlotte | last=Chandler | title=Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends | date=11 December 2012 | pages=171–2 | publisher=Simon and Schuster | isbn=9781471105852 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJb_tnBVcG8C&pg=PT71 }} In later life Jorja Sheldon became an interior designer.{{cite journal | first=Keith | last=Tuber | title=Master of the Game | journal=Orange Coast Magazine | date=December 1987 | page=236 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA236 }} By the time of her death she had decorated over 200 homes for friends and celebrities across the United States. She also edited her husband's novels.
She died May 11, 1985, aged 61, from a heart attack, at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Filmography
- Hitler's Madman (1943).
- Whistle Stop (1946).
- Heaven Only Knows (1947).
- M (1951).
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955).
- The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956).
- Bonanza (1966) S7E27
- I Dream of Jeannie (1966) S1E25
References
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Category:People from Amarillo, Texas