Sandy Descher
Biography
Sandy Descher is an American former child actress whose screen career centered on the 1950s. Born in Burbank, California, she held a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a child, a rarity reported by a 1954 news item. That year she played Vicky in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954), a part that required speaking French and dancing ballet, a disabled child in 3 Ring Circus (1954), and the frightened girl in the science fiction film Them! (1954). She also appeared in The Prodigal (1955) with Lana Turner and played Gregory Peck's daughter in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956). Her later film work included The Opposite Sex (1956), The Bottom of the Bottle (1956), and The Space Children (1958), her final movie at age twelve. On television, she had a recurring role on The New Loretta Young Show and guest-starred on My Three Sons, Wagon Train, and Perry Mason, ending with a 1966 Perry Mason episode.
80years old
Turns 81 on November 30in 48 days
- Born Burbank
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
- Also credited as Sandra Descher
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 4 years1954 to 1958
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A news item in 1954 reported that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had signed Descher, and it described her as "the only long-term contract child in Hollywood."
A first
Descher's final movie was the cult favorite The Space Children, released in 1958, and she was 12 years old at the time.
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Sandy Descher shares two films with Van Johnson, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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Nunnally JohnsonDirector, 1 film, 1956
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