Cheryl Walker
Actor
Biography
From Wikipedia
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.
Filmography
You and Me
as Sales Clerk (uncredited) 1938
Stage Door Canteen
as Eileen Burke 1943
If I Were King
as Girl (uncredited) 1938
Identity Unknown
as Sally MacGregor 1945
Three on a Ticket
as Phyllis Hamilton 1947
Men with Wings
as Nurse 1938
Chasing Trouble
as Phyllis Benton 1940
It's a Pleasure
as Loni 1945
Larceny in Her Heart
as Phyllis Hamilton 1946
$1,000 a Touchdown
as Blondie (uncredited) 1939
Waterfront at Midnight
as Helen Hanrohan 1948
A Song for Miss Julie
as Marcelle Conway 1945
Secrets of a Model
as Rita Wilson 1940
Murder Is My Business
as Phyllis Hamilton 1946
Trial by Trigger
as Lee Roberts 1944
Cocoanut Grove
as Girl 1938