Margaret Sheridan

Margaret Elizabeth Sheridan was an American actress of the early 1950s, and protge of director Howard Hawks. The ravenhaired beauty is best remembered for her role as Nikki Nickolson opposite Kenneth Tobey in the 1951 science fiction classic The Thing from Another World.

She was born in Los Angeles, California, to Thomas J. and Julia P. Sheridan. Margaret was discovered by Howard Hawks while she was still attending college. Initially Hawks believed she was the most promising of his female discoveries.

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