Sandy Descher Biography
Sandy Descher( born Sandra Kay Descher) is an American former child actor from the 1950s. In 1952, she began her career in uncredited minor parts. Sandy is most known for her portrayal as the terrified little child in the 1954 film “Them!”.
Sandy Descher Age
She was born Sandra Kay Descher on 30 November 1945, in Burbank, California, United States of America. Kay is 78 years old as of November 2023.
Sandy Descher Family
Sandy was born andraised in Burbank, California, Descher is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Descher. She has a younger brother, Michael. She attended North Hollywood High School.
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Sandy Descher Career
In 1954, a news story said that Descher was “the only long-term contract child in Hollywood,” having been signed by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. She starred in her favorite movie, The Last Time I Saw Paris. She portrayed Vicky, the daughter of Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor, in the film Babylon Revisited, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story. Vicky’s mother dies, and she is adopted by her mother’s sister, Donna Reed. The movie required her to speak French and do ballet. In 1954, she also appeared as a disabled youngster in a Martin and Lewis picture. In 1954, she played the tiny girl in the opening sequence of Them!, a film about enormous ants starring Edmund Gwenn, James Arness, and James Whitmore.
Descher also appeared in the 1955 Christmas special of Miracle on 34th Street as Susan Walker, the daughter of Doris Walker, who was played by Teresa Wright. It also starred Macdonald Carey as Fred Gaily, the attorney who represented Kris Kringle (played by Thomas Mitchell). In 1956, she portrayed June Allyson’s daughter Debbie in The Opposite Sex, a musical adaptation of The Women (1939). She acted in another film with Van Johnson that year, The Bottom of the Bottle (1956). She also appeared as Sally in the 1965 television episode “Kris’ Girlfriend” of Ozzie and Harriet. Around this time, she guest starred with Ann Doran in the Western series My Friend Flicka.
Her final film, at the age of 12, was the cult classic The Space Children (1958). In 1959, she starred in the episode “Dark Morning” of CBS’s anthology series The DuPont Show, alongside June Allyson. She was a guest star on The Real McCoys. In 1961, she featured in the first season of My Three Sons as Elizabeth Martin, a love interest for Robbie Douglas (Don Grady) in episode 32, “The Musician,” and again in 1964 as Robbie’s love interest in season five as Marjorie in episode 13, “You’re in My Power.”Descher also had a recurring role as Judy Massey, Christine Massey’s daughter, in the CBS family drama The New Loretta Young Show (1962-63).
Sandy Descher Net Worth
Sandy has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.