A romance developed, and Pittman married Maurita Jackson in a small ceremony on June 4, 1952, in Torrance, California, with Sherry as flower girl and younger brother Gary as ring-bearer Cochran himself was Pittman's best man. Steve introduced his friend, writer Montgomery Pittman, to Sherry's widowed mother. In 1950, young Sherry became friends with actor Steve Cochran while working with him on The Lion and the Horse. Apocryphal perhaps, but within the year Sherry had her first screen test, for The Snake Pit with Olivia de Havilland, and by the age of seven appeared in her first feature film, the 1949 musical You're My Everything, which starred Anne Baxter and Dan Dailey. According to another, she was referred by the friend of an agent who saw Sherry eating ice cream on the Sunset Strip. īy one account Maurita, who had been told while still in Idaho that her children should be in films, was referred to a theatrical agent by a tour bus driver whom they met in Los Angeles. After her husband died in 1948, Maurita moved the family from Wendell to Los Angeles, California.
Jackson, beginning in their formative years. Her mother provided drama, singing, and dancing lessons for Sherry and her two brothers, Curtis L. Jackson was born in Wendell, Idaho, to Maurita (or Maurite) Kathleen Gilbert and Curtis Loys Jackson, Sr.
