Sherry D. Jackson (born February 15, 1942) is a retired American
actress and former child star.Jackson was born in Wendell, Idaho, to
Maurita (or Maurite) Kathleen Gilbert and Curtis Loys Jackson,
Sr.[citation needed] Her mother provided drama, singing, and dancing
lessons for Sherry and her two brothers, Curtis L. Jackson, Jr., and
Gary L. Jackson, beginning in their formative years. After her husband
died in 1948,[citation needed] Maurita moved the family from Wendell
to Los Angeles, California.By one account Maurita, who had been told
while still in Idaho that her children should be in films, was
referred to a theatrical agent by a tour bus driver whom they met in
Los Angeles. According to another, she was referred by the friend of
an agent who saw Sherry eating ice cream on the Sunset Strip.
Apocryphal perhaps, but within the year Sherry had her first screen
test, for The Snake Pit with Olivia De Havilland, and by the age of
seven appeared in her first feature film, the 1949 musical You're My
Everything, which starred Anne Baxter and Dan Dailey.In 1950, young
Sherry became friends with actor Steve Cochran while working with him
on The Lion and the Horse. Steve introduced his friend, writer
Montgomery Pittman, to Sherry's widowed mother. A romance developed,
and Pittman married Maurita Jackson in a small ceremony on June 4,
1952, in Torrance, California, with Sherry as flower girl and younger
brother Gary as ring-bearer; Cochran himself was Pittman's best man.
In 1955 Cochran hired Pittman to write his next film, Come Next
Spring, the first that Cochran produced himself. Sherry played the
part of Cochran's mute daughter Annie Ballot, a role Pittman wrote
specifically for his step-daughter. Sherry Jackson Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter