Anne Sheridan, a Stanwyck like performance in Wagon Train
Posted: March 13th, 2014, 1:04 pm
I've been watching a few Wagon Trains recently and was hugely impressed by Anne Sheridan in The Mavis Grant Story, where she played a role Barabara Stanwyck would have been good in.
One of my hobby horses is moaning about the fact that many classical actresses of the 1930s were written off by the 50s and 60s and often use Barbara Stanwyck in the Tv western series The Big Valley as an example of an attractive actress still with a lot to offer. Anne Sheridan, after some great performances in Angels With Dirty Faces, Kings Row, City Of Conquest, Edge Of Darkness and brilliantly in I Was A Male War Bride, appeared to be written of at a fairly young age, but in this 1962 episode of Wagon Train IMO appears to be better than ever. The sad thing is however, Anne died of cancer 4yrs later.
Spoiler
Here she plays the hard headed business tomboyish business woman, who owns a well in the middle of no-where during a drough and has the guns to stop anyone taking any water away from her. The Chris Hale wagon train badly in need of water asks fo her help, which she's prepared to do, but at a hefty price which the train can't afford. One young man tries to kidnap her and hold her hostage, but he picked on the wrong woman, who ends of flogging him with her whip(shades of Jean Arthur in Arizona). Her heart softens however, when a young woman, disowned by a father on the train, reminds her of something that happened to her at the same age. Not only does she persuade the man to forgive his daughter, but she gives Hale the water he needs free of charge.
One of my hobby horses is moaning about the fact that many classical actresses of the 1930s were written off by the 50s and 60s and often use Barbara Stanwyck in the Tv western series The Big Valley as an example of an attractive actress still with a lot to offer. Anne Sheridan, after some great performances in Angels With Dirty Faces, Kings Row, City Of Conquest, Edge Of Darkness and brilliantly in I Was A Male War Bride, appeared to be written of at a fairly young age, but in this 1962 episode of Wagon Train IMO appears to be better than ever. The sad thing is however, Anne died of cancer 4yrs later.
Spoiler
Here she plays the hard headed business tomboyish business woman, who owns a well in the middle of no-where during a drough and has the guns to stop anyone taking any water away from her. The Chris Hale wagon train badly in need of water asks fo her help, which she's prepared to do, but at a hefty price which the train can't afford. One young man tries to kidnap her and hold her hostage, but he picked on the wrong woman, who ends of flogging him with her whip(shades of Jean Arthur in Arizona). Her heart softens however, when a young woman, disowned by a father on the train, reminds her of something that happened to her at the same age. Not only does she persuade the man to forgive his daughter, but she gives Hale the water he needs free of charge.