Sheila Barrett

Biography

Sheila Barrett's legitimate debut came in the "Greenwich Village Follies." She was an attractive and clever monologist and comedienne, and played many supper clubs doing her comic impressions of "The Southern Girl," "The Chorus Girl", Greta Garbo and others. In 1940 she recorded for the short-lived Schirmer Record Company, whose producer, Gus Schirmer, Jr. wrote special material for her act. In March 1940 Barrett performed for President and Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the President's mother) at a Cabinet Dinner. Although she made very few screen appearances, on stage she appeared in "Experience Unnecessary," "Thumbs Up" and her "One Woman Show" in 1962. She died at age 71 in St. Clare's Hospital New York.