Kent submitted a picture of Sheridan in Paramount Pictures’ “Search for Beauty” contest. Sheridan, then a student at North Texas State Teachers College in her native Denton, Tex., emerged the local winner and, in 1933, was on her way in films. She was the heroine of a novel, Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx, written by Kathryn Heisenfelt, published by Whitman Publishing Company in 1943. While the heroine of the story was identified as a famous actress, the stories were entirely fictitious. The story was probably written for a young teenage audience and is reminiscent of the adventures of Nancy Drew. It is part of a series known as “Whitman Authorized Editions”, 16 books published between 1941-1947 that always featured a film actress as heroine.
