In the 1940s, she starred with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy in “The Blandings Have a Home,” and with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in “The Body Snatcher.” Sharyn Moffett has died at the age of 85 on December 23, although the news has emerged later, in a Pittsburgh hospital.
Born on September 12, 1936, Sharyn Moffett came from a show business family, as her father, RE Moffett, was a singer, and her mother, Gladyce Lloyd Roberts, a dancer. When she was four years old, her parents moved to Beverly Hills, to try to help their daughter succeed in the movies. Her younger brother, Gregory Moffett, also worked as a child actor, with less fortune.
When she was eleven months old, Sharyn Moffett already appreciated in Chicago. At age 7, she starred in My Friend Wolf , where she played a girl who buys her dog from the Secretary of War in Washington.
In 1944, Sharyn Moffett signed a seven-year contract with RKO. She appeared in a dozen films, including The Body Snatcher , Daughter of Divorce, Banjo, and especially The Blandings Have a Home , an adaptation of a novel by Eric Hodgins . The Blandings, a family with two girls, rent a small apartment in midtown Manhattan. Fed up with this situation, they decide to buy a country house located one hour from the city. So they decide to build the home of their dreams… not knowing that, in reality, their nightmare has just begun. This comedy produced by David O. Selznick brings together an exceptional trio as Cary Grant and Myrna Loy as the Blandings, and Melvyn Douglas as the family’s best friend. Sharyn Moffett had to give life to Joan, the younger sister.
En1955, Sharyn Moffettshe married James Forrest and abandoned the cinema. The couple had three children. Her husband died in 2011.