Sherry Jackson

 Sherry D. Jackson (born on February 15th, 1942) is an American retired actress and former child star.In 1950 she was a young Sherry was introduced to actor Steve Cochran while working alongside him in the film The Lion and the Horse. Steve introduced his co-worker writer Montgomery Pittman, to Sherry's widowed mother. A romance developed, and Pittman was married Maurita Jackson in a intimate ceremony on June 4 1952 in Torrance, California, with Sherry as the flower girl and younger brother Gary as the ring bearer. Cochran himself was Pittman's favorite man. In 1955, Cochran was hired by Pittman to write his next film, Come Next Spring, the first film that Cochran produced himself. Sherry was the character Cochran's mute daughter Annie Ballot, a role Pittman wrote specifically for his step-daughter.During the period of her appearance in many of the Ma and Pa Kettle films of the 1950s as Susie Kettle, one of the titular couple's numerous children, Jackson also appeared in The Breaking Point, which starred John Garfield in his penultimate film role.