![Elaine Shepard](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/cr8TP68QWui4QPpsLwrQ1nodu5B.jpg)
Elaine Shepard
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elaine Elizabeth Shepard (April 2, 1913 – September 6, 1998) was a Broadway and film actress in the 1930s and 1940s. She was also the author of The Doom Pussy, a semi-fictional account of aviation in the Vietnam War.
Shepard's first film appearance was in the 1936 Republic serial Darkest Africa, in which she played Valerie Tremaine, the heroine of the film. This was followed with a series of leading roles in other minor films, such as You Can't Fool Your Wife, a 1940 comedy starring Lucille Ball. She then had several minor roles in major films, including playing a secretary in Topper and uncredited roles in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and the 1946 Ziegfeld Follies. A more prominent role came in Seven Days Ashore, a musical in which she plays the principal love interest for the band of sailors on shore leave.
Shepard also had some minor appearances on Broadway, including a part in the 1940 Cole Porter musical Panama Hattie.
Shepard abandoned acting and turned to freelance journalism. She is best known in this role for her Vietnam War coverage, which became the basis for her 1967 book The Doom Pussy, recounting her experiences with aviators in the early part of the war. This book includes an early use of the phrase "the whole nine yards".
Known For | Acting |
---|---|
Most Rating | 5.055 |
Birthday | 1913-04-02 |
Place of Birth | Olney - Illinois - USA |
Also Known As |
![Topper](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/f7pJvv6Wxnnp4RuU0c7dLV8EZNR.jpg)
1937
![Topper](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/f7pJvv6Wxnnp4RuU0c7dLV8EZNR.jpg)
Topper
6.75/112
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of thei...
Watch Now
Topper
![The Falcon in Danger](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/tYO1a5ZXLNosJ1iN0W84kSMn1Hg.jpg)
1943
![The Falcon in Danger](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/tYO1a5ZXLNosJ1iN0W84kSMn1Hg.jpg)
The Falcon in Danger
5.6/11
Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot ag...
Watch Now
The Falcon in Danger
![Darkest Africa](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/eYPAbFxNXWntVoDP4kNnYT6qP1u.jpg)
1936
![Darkest Africa](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/eYPAbFxNXWntVoDP4kNnYT6qP1u.jpg)
Darkest Africa
7.2/3
A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest.
Watch Now
Darkest Africa
![Law of the Ranger](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/xVvhfAqeuh0gIDjCKkzftFsXTaB.jpg)
1937
![Law of the Ranger](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/xVvhfAqeuh0gIDjCKkzftFsXTaB.jpg)
Law of the Ranger
0/0
Working undercover, Rangers Bob and Wally arrive to take up ranching. Out to stop them is Bill Nash and his men. When Bob plans to file on a ranch, Na...
Watch Now
Law of the Ranger
![I Cover Chinatown](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/I219e5HTRlxjSZZUFOLZ7kxA90.jpg)
1936
![I Cover Chinatown](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/I219e5HTRlxjSZZUFOLZ7kxA90.jpg)
I Cover Chinatown
0/0
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.
Watch Now
I Cover Chinatown
![The Fighting Texan](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/p8QcpeVRcMrAjLkb8BokOBCAcwq.jpg)
1937
![The Fighting Texan](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/p8QcpeVRcMrAjLkb8BokOBCAcwq.jpg)
The Fighting Texan
0/0
A rancher finds that his stock of horses is mysteriously being depleted, and discovers that a ranch near him has had a sudden upsurge in its horse pop...
Watch Now
The Fighting Texan
![Seven Days Ashore](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/1IYsult7UagxZzAdvZSaSKrjq38.jpg)
1944
![Seven Days Ashore](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/1IYsult7UagxZzAdvZSaSKrjq38.jpg)
Seven Days Ashore
4.5/3
Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.
Watch Now
Seven Days Ashore
![Professor Beware](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7pdERSpuajg4hIP5EOm9HagLuFX.jpg)
1938
![Professor Beware](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7pdERSpuajg4hIP5EOm9HagLuFX.jpg)
Professor Beware
6.125/4
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the po...
Watch Now
Professor Beware
![You Can't Fool Your Wife](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/9y7OZ3iUQrHGWJ5oq3jKlo9T5in.jpg)
1940
![You Can't Fool Your Wife](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/9y7OZ3iUQrHGWJ5oq3jKlo9T5in.jpg)
You Can't Fool Your Wife
4.5/4
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky tha...
Watch Now
You Can't Fool Your Wife
![Fiamme sulla laguna](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/iMZZ9MqoSsCVGwYDttBAS9hKpqt.jpg)
1951
![Fiamme sulla laguna](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/iMZZ9MqoSsCVGwYDttBAS9hKpqt.jpg)
Fiamme sulla laguna
0/0
After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.
Watch Now
Fiamme sulla laguna
![There Goes My Heart](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/cKWrAEES5NkT5Uc5j4bhMoIukKF.jpg)
1938
![There Goes My Heart](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/cKWrAEES5NkT5Uc5j4bhMoIukKF.jpg)
There Goes My Heart
7.2/12
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Watch Now
There Goes My Heart
![Night 'n' Gales](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/pGHpSxXwkBL9cW7bdVmUQteG6Pc.jpg)
1937
![Night 'n' Gales](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/pGHpSxXwkBL9cW7bdVmUQteG6Pc.jpg)
Night 'n' Gales
7/3
Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy.
Watch Now
Night 'n' Gales
![Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/dvvgU0TwstTtZofAzBA5syt5on7.jpg)
1944
![Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/dvvgU0TwstTtZofAzBA5syt5on7.jpg)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
6.6/56
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Jap...
Watch Now