Baby Sandy

Baby Sandy (born January 14, 1938), real name Sandra Lea Henville, is a former American child film actress.^[1]

Henville was born, prematurely, in hospital in Los Angeles, California. She performed in her first film at the age of 15 months. She was considered "Universal Pictures' wonder baby" and their answer to Shirley Temple. Her last film was before her fifth birthday, made for a second rank studio, Republic Pictures. She grew up and worked in the legal department of a local government. She married and divorced twice, and had two sons.

Work

Her film Bachelor Daddy is based on a similar concept to the much later Three Men and a Baby.

Filmography

• East Side of Heaven (1939) Sandy, the Barrett Baby
• Unexpected Father (1939) Sandy (as Sandy Lee)
• Little Accident (1939) Sandy
• Sandy Is a Lady (1940) Baby Sandy
• Sandy Gets Her Man (1940) Sandy
• Bachelor Daddy (1941) Sandy (as Sandra Lee Henville)
• Melody Lane (1941) Sandy (as Sandy)
• Johnny Doughboy (1942) Baby Sandy
• Life Alert television commercial 2005

References

Bibliography

• Best, Marc. Those Endearing Young Charms: Child Performers of the Screen (South Brunswick and New York: Barnes & Co., 1971), pp. 225–229.

External links

• Baby Sandy at IMDb