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Thank you for visiting the Official Sally Forrest website, where you will find information on her work and where fans can request photos and more.  

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in the beginning

Born in San Diego, Sally studied dance from a young age and shortly out of high school, she was signed to a contract by MGM.  Sally began her film career as a chorus dancer in MGM musicals of the 1940s. She made her acting debut in Not Wanted (1949), scripted and produced by Ida Lupino. The controversial subject of unwed motherhood was a raw and unsentimental view of a condition that was seldom explored by Hollywood. The film launched her to star in two further Lupino projects, Never Fear (1949) and Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951), as well as other film noir films, including the star-studded While the City Sleeps (1956), 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 (1951).

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FILM career at MGM

Most of Sally’s films were made at 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 (1955), 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, Sally noticed her harem dance costume slowly disappearing, until it was barely compliant with the Production Code.

Theatre & tv

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), Sally’s 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.

FILMOGRAPHY

  • Till the Clouds Roll By (uncredited showgirl) (1946) – Showgirl (uncredited)
  • The Unfinished Dance (1947, chorus)
  • Fiesta (1947, choreography assistant)
  • Are You With It? (1948) – Dancer (uncredited)
  • The Pirate (1948) – Fiesta Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
  • The Kissing Bandit (1948, choreography assistant)
  • Easter Parade (1948, uncredited dancer)
  • Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) – Dancer at Wharf Party (uncredited)
  • Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) – Miss Cadwaller, Dr. Gibbs’ Secretary (uncredited)
  • Not Wanted (1949) – Sally Kelton
  • Scene of the Crime (1949) – Minor Role (uncredited)
  • Flame of Youth (1949) – Miss O’Brien (credited as Katherine Lang)
  • Whirlpool (1949) – Minor Role (uncredited)
  • Dancing in the Dark (1949) – Secretary (uncredited)
  • Never Fear (AKA The Young Lovers) (1950) – Carol Williams
  • Mystery Street (1950) – Grace Shanway
  • My Blue Heaven (1950) – Minor Role (uncredited)
  • Vengeance Valley (1951) – Lily
  • Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951) – Florence Farley
  • Valentino (1951, choreography assistant)
  • Excuse My Dust (1951) – Liz Bullitt
  • The Strip (1951) – Jane Tafford
  • The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951, MGM promotional documentary)
  • Bannerline (1951) – Richie Loomis
  • The Strange Door (1951) – Blanche de Maletroit
  • Code Two (1953) – Mary Hartley
  • Son of Sinbad (1955) – Ameer
  • While the City Sleeps (1956) – Nancy Liggett
  • Ride the High Iron (1956) – Elsie Vanders

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Milo’s books are available on Amazon.  To order, please click on book cover.

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About Milo

Milo O. Frank was born in New York City in 1922. He served in the US Marines during WWII and attended the USC-sponsored language school in Boulder, Colorado.

Frank worked as a talent agent for the William Morris Agency in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and became agent for Sally Forrest (born Sally Feeney), whom he married in 1951. Mrs. Frank still lives (2009), and had a career as a movie actress, starring in Not Wanted (1949), a 1948 movie directed by Ida Lupino and in MGM’s Excuse My Dust (1951), a 1952 movie co-starring Red Skelton, and also as a dancer/entertainer who appeared on TV shows during the 1950s, including The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956).

Frank went on to work as head of Talent And Casting for CBS Television, and later for Cinerama. He became a producer of independent movies in the 1960s, including All the Loving Couples (1969), a movie about wife-swapping which became a major box-office success in 1970.

In his later life, he became an author, and wrote “How To Make Your Point In Thirty Seconds”, and was hired as a business management consultant by major corporations assisting in meeting planning and executive communications streamlining. He died in California in 2004 at age 82.

Sally presented the Academy Award for special effects video on Utube and photo on 2016 Oscars in Memoriam.

Contact

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