A protégée of director Howard Hawks, brunette American actress Margaret Sheridan made her screen debut in 1951 as the self-reliant heroine of the Hawks-produced science fiction classic The Thing (1951). She later co-starred in the 1953 Mike Hammer film I, the Jury as Hammer's voluptuous secretary Velda, then appeared in another sci-fier, The Diamond Wizard (1954), under the direction of...
