Karen Sharpe: Karen Sharpe. Actress: The High and the Mighty. Svelte and stunning Texas-born Karen Sharpe was put into ballet shoes as a youngster. Her initial excursion to California was, at age 12, with the interest of becoming a professional ice skater, but the lure of being a movie star intervened. Her training as a teenager in the theater paid off and, in 1952, she appeared in Stanley Kramer's production of The...
Known For: The High and the Mighty (Nell Buck), The Disorderly Orderly (Julie Blair), Nakusa (Producer), Fate's Shadow: The Whole Story (Mary)