Cheryl Walker

Active - 1938 - 1948  |   Birth - Aug 1, 1918  |   Death - Oct 24, 1971  |   Genres - Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime, Music | Subgenres - Musical, Romantic Comedy, Western Film, American Football Film, Comedy Drama

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Cheryl Walker (August 1, 1918 – October 24, 1971) was an

American fashion model and actress.

Born in South Pasadena, California to Everett Dale and

Pauline S. Walker, Cheryl Walker won the 1938 Tournament of Roses pageant

leading to a brief career as a model and the beginning of a brief film career.

She appeared in small, uncredited roles in several films from 1938 until her

first substantial role in Chasing Trouble (1940) with Frankie Darro. She

briefly took the name Sharon Lee for the film Secrets of a Model (1940) which

provided her first starring role, before returning to minor roles. She was

Veronica Lake's "double" in the film Sullivan's Travels (1941), and

was the female lead in Shadows on the Sage (1942). She also was Claudette

Colbert's stand-in on No Time for Love. Her most substantial role was in Stage

Door Canteen (1943) in which she played a hostess at the canteen who meets and

falls in love with a serviceman. She continued appearing in films for the next

few years until her retirement in 1948.

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