death_place death_date birth_place othername birth_date yearsactive article_title name occupation
los angeles , california , u.s. 23 july 2003 san francisco , california , u.s. sheila legay sheila manners 31 october 1911 1930 -- 1975 sheila bromley
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sheila bromley

sheila bromley -lrb- 31 october 1911 -- 23 july 2003 -rrb- , sometimes billed as sheila legay , sheila manners , sheila mannors or sheila manors , was an american television and film actress .
she is best known for her roles in b-movies , mostly westerns of the era .
born in san francisco , california , she began her career in the 1930s on contract with monogram pictures , she was first billed as sheila legay starring in 1930 westerns alongside tom tyler .
she frequently co-starred with ken maynard , hoot gibson , johnny mack brown , bill cody , and dick foran .
she first starred alongside bill cody in the 1932 western `` land of wanted men '' .
she starred opposite john wayne in the 1935 films `` westward ho '' & `` lawless range '' and the 1937 film `` idol of the crowds '' .
in 1944 bromley appeared in the touring production of `` good night ladies '' .
in 1960 she appeared as a central character mrs spencer alongside paul brinegars character wishbone in the `` rawhide '' episode `` incident of the deserter '' .
she appeared in one episode of `` i love lucy '' as helen erickson kaiser , the childhood friend of lucy ricardo .
she also made five guest appearances on `` perry mason '' during the series ' nine-year run on cbs .
in her first appearance in 1959 she played co-defendant agnes nulty in `` the case of the borrowed brunette '' .
in 1962 she played murderer elizabeth dow in `` the case of the mystified miner '' .
during world war ii she worked often for the uso , continuing that service until the war ended in 1945 .
there she met her husband jairus bellamy .
she is credited with seventy-five films in her career , of which seventeen were westerns , for which she is best known .
bromley retired from films and lived in the greater los angeles area until her death in 2003 , aged 91 .
