Background
She was born Kay Clark in Warroad, Minnesota.
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Sheila Terry
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Education
Terry first studied dramatics at Dickson-Kenwin academy, a school affiliated with London"s Royal Academy.
Career
Later she moved to New York, where she continued her studies and appeared in a number of plays. While appearing on Broadway in The Little Racketeer, she was spotted by an alert film scout and given a test which led to a contract with Warner Brothers
She played in 1930s for Warner Brothers She appeared with John Wayne in the Western films Haunted Gold (1932).
Neath the Arizona Skies and The Lawless Frontier (1934).
She appeared with Bette Davis, Louis Calhern and Spencer Tracy in Michael Curtiz"s film 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932). She appeared with Cary Grant and Sylvia Sidney in Marion Gering"s film Madame Butterfly (1932).
She also played with Loretta Young, Thelma Todd, Gail Patrick, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, William Powell, George Brent and Adolphe Menjou. In 1933 she left Hollywood briefly for the New York stage.
In January 1957, her body was discovered in the third floor apartment, which was both her home and office.
The door was locked, and Terry did not answer the bell. Keating called the police. They broke in and found Terry"s body on the bedroom floor, her back leaning against the bed.
Five capsules, their contents gone, were on the floor beside her.
Friends told the police that she returned from a trip to Mexico a few days before her death and that she was ill when she came home. lieutenant was later discovered that she died broke.
She left only a scanty wardrobe. She was buried in Potter"s Field.
