Sheila Sullivan

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Sheila Rae Sullivan (born August 1, 1937 in Renton, Washington) is a Broadway actress and singer. In 1957, Sullivan was a Tropicana girl at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino then run by mobster Johnny Roselli. Sullivan performed as a chorus girl with Eddie Fisher opening night. In 1958 she wrote a letter to the head of publicity at Convair, Ned Root, and volunteered to man history's first spaceship. Instead of sending her to the moon, like she wanted, Ned Root made her his wife. In 1964, Sullivan was the understudy for Paula Wayne in Golden Boy with Sammy Davis Jr. The Tony-winning musical included Broadway's first interracial kiss. The billboard outside the Majestic Theater featuring Davis (a Black man) and Wayne (a white woman) was riddled with bullets because of it. On March 25, 1965, Sullivan arrived in Montgomery, Alabama with her cast members in an effort to support Martin Luther King Jr. for the third March to Montgomery. After two days of extreme weather conditions, no sleep, and...

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