Sherry Jackson

 Jackson was born in Wendell, Idaho, to Maurita (or Maurite) Kathleen Gilbert and Curtis Loys Jackson, Sr.[citation needed] on February 15, 1942, as reported by the LA Times. Her mother provided singing, drama and dancing lessons to Sherry as well as her brothers, Curtis L. Jackson, Jr., and Gary L. Jackson, starting in their early childhood years. Maurita's husband passed away in 1948. Maurita and her family moved from Wendell, Idaho to Los Angeles. A tour bus driver that they came across in Los Angeles referred Maurita to an agent for the stage. According to one source, she was told about her by a person who saw Sherry eating ice cream on the Sunset Strip. [5] Apocryphal perhaps, however, within a year Sherry was able to pass her first screen test for The Snake Pit with Olivia de Havilland, and by the age of seven appeared in her debut feature film, the 1949 musical You're My Everything, which featured Anne Baxter and Dan Dailey.In 1950, young Sherry was introduced to actor Steve Cochran while working with Steve Cochran in the film The Lion and the Horse. Steve introduced his co-worker the writer Montgomery Pittman, to Sherry's widowed mother. The two struck up a romantic relationship and Pittman married Maurita Jackson in a tiny ceremony on June 4, 1952, in Torrance, California, with Sherry as the flower girl, and her younger brother Gary as ring-bearer; Cochran was Pittman's favorite man. In 1955, Cochran employed Pittman to compose his subsequent film Come Next Spring, the first of his films that Cochran produced himself.Sherry played the part of Cochran's daughter who is mute Annie Ballot, a role Pittman created specifically for his step-daughter . During the course of appearing in several of the Ma and Pa Kettle movies during the 1950s, as Susie Kettle, one of the titular couple's numerous children, Jackson also appeared in The Breaking Point, which featured John Garfield in his penultimate film in the role of. She played Jacinta Marto as a volatile, emotional ascetic and visionary, in the 1952 film The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima[5]. The next year she was John Wayne's daughter in the football-themed Trouble Along the Way[6[6].