About Gregg Sherwood
Lived 1923 – 2011 (aged 87). Gregg Sherwood was an American actor and socialite.
Gregg Sherwood, born Dora Mae Fjelstad, (October 21, 1923 – May 27, 2011) was an American socialite and actress.
Biography Sherwood was born in New York City but moved to Beloit, Wisconsin with her mother when she was three. She enrolled in a modeling school in New York in the early 1940s, and participated in beauty pageants. In 1950, she was the Queen of the North Carolina Azalea Festival. During the later 1940s and the 1950s, Sherwood worked as a chorus girl and model, appearing in ads, the cover of TV Guide, and in Wink, a pinup magazine, which did a cover story on her.
She spent her last years living in Palm Beach, Florida, and was buried at the Our Lady Queen of Peace Cemetery in Royal Palm Beach, Florida.
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Who was Gregg Sherwood?
American actress and socialite (1923-2011)
When was Gregg Sherwood born?
Gregg Sherwood was born on 21 October 1923 in New York City.
When did Gregg Sherwood die?
Gregg Sherwood died on 27 May 2011 in Palm Beach.
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Gregg Sherwood was an actor and socialite.
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Gregg Sherwood was American.
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