Jorja Curtright, also known after marriage as Jorja Sheldon (1923–1985) was an American stage and film actress, who later became an

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Life

Jorja Curtright was born Aug 14, 1923, in

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. In her first film, the wartime propaganda film ''Hitler's Madman'' (1943), she played a young woman, Clara Janek, who leaps to her death from a hospital window rather than submit to Nazi sterilization. In 1952 she married the novelist and producer

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, and the pair had a daughter Mary. Jorja and Sidney Sheldon were good friends of

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, who thought highly of her ability as an actress. In later life Jorja Sheldon became an interior designer. By the time of her death she had decorated over 200 homes for friends and celebrities across the United States. She also edited her husband's novels. She died May 11, 1985, aged 61, from a heart attack, at

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Filmography

* ''Hitler's Madman'' (1943). * ''

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'' (1946). * '' Heaven Only Knows'' (1947). * '' M'' (1951). * '' Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing'' (1955). * ''

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'' (1956). * ''Bonanza'' (1966) S7E27 * ''I Dream of Jeannie'' (1966) S1E25

References

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