Gale Sherwood

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Gale Sherwood March 4 1929 December 31 2017 was a Canadian singer and actress born Jacqueline Nutt She was best known as the singing partner of Nelson Eddy from 1953 until his death in 1967 Sherwood was born in Hamilton Ontario and graduated in 1945 from the MarKen School a preparatory high school that catered to children in or with parents in the entertainment industry in Hollywood California At the age of 5 she began singing on Canadian radio three years before her family moved to California Her film and television roles included juvenile roles as Betty in They Shall Have Music 1939 and High School Singer in Lets Make Music 1941 As an adult she appeared as Meelah in Blonde Savage 1947 Ellen Forrester in Rocky 1948 Sophia in Song of My Heart 1948 Yvonne in Naughty Marietta TV 1955 Morgan Le Fay in A Connecticut Yankee TV 1955 and Margot opposite Eddy in The Desert Song TV 1955 She sang with Eddy on television and in his nightclub act from 1953 until his death in 1967 Her stage roles included an appearance as Julie in Show Boat in 1967 with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Sherwood died in the State of Florida on New Years Eve in 2017 at the age of 88 She was divorced from her first husband Howard Wayne McCoy Jr and was the widow of Charles Edward Francis who preceded her in death in 2008