One knockout of a beauty, Sherry Jackson began her prolific career as a child actress, holding her own among Hollywood's top echelon of stars, including Barbara Hale in Lorna Doone (1951), moppet star Bobby Driscoll in When I Grow Up (1951), Steve Cochran in The Lion and the Horse (1952) and, most impressively, opposite John Wayne in Trouble Along the Way (1953). Rumor has it that Sherry was "discovered" by a talent agent while she and her mother were waiting for a bus. A busy little beaver from 1949 on, pig-tailed Sherry often appeared unbilled in films and turned up as one of the bucolic brood in the popular "Ma and Pa Kettle" series for Universal Pictures.Her most impressive role, however, was as a Portuguese youngster who witnesses a vision in The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952). TV became her choice of medium at the age of 11 and Sherry literally grew up as Danny Thomas' feisty daughter Terry on "Make Room for Daddy" (1953). Sherry grew from adorable child actress to a ravishing beauty. After leaving the stability of her classic sitcom (the script had her heading off for college), however, she found it difficult finding work as a young adult and compromised her talents by taking advantage of her smashing looks.Her image changed drastically in those years from a cute, smart TV tyke to playing sexy, smoldering love interests. Besides the customary guest parts on TV sitcoms and dramas, she developed a minor cult audience playing beehive brunettes in lurid low-budgets actioners. You could count on seeing Sherry as a biker babe, scantily-dressed party girl or man-eating femme fatale. The work was strictly routine and her career pretty much fell away by the 1980s.
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