| Salma El-Sharkawy |
An American former child actress, born on April 28, 1933, in New York City, New York, USA, as Constance Beekman Marshall. She appeared after WWII, and her career continued for a decade in cinema and television. At the age of five, she worked as a model and cover girl for commercials, newspapers, and magazines. She went to Gardner School in New York, where she participated in a few plays and graduated from West Beverly High School. Later, she went to Fox Studio School to study ballet and ballroom dancing. She launched her professional acting career when she was 11. As soon as she started to grow up, her career started to decline. She stopped acting in 1954 and spent her last years serving her community. She is known for her roles in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Sentimental Journey (1946), and Dragonwyck (1946). She was married to Franklin Dunbar Geldert, with whom she had four children, but they got divorced. She passed away at the age of 68 from cancer on May 22, 2001, in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
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