Per IMDb, Elizabeth Ann Sheridan was born on April 10, 1929, in Rye, New York, to singer Elizabeth Poole-Jones and concert pianist Frank Sheridan. According to Metacritic, she was raised in Manhattan and worked as a singer and a dancer in New York in the early 1950s. During this time, she met actor James Dean and the two began a romantic relationship, per People Magazine. Sheridan later wrote a book about her time with James Dean, “Dizzy & Jimmy: My Life With James Dean: A Love Story,” and their relationship was also detailed in the James Dean biography “Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean.” Sheridan called her relationship with James Dean “just kind of magical. It was the first love for both of us.”
Per People Magazine, Liz Sheridan and James Dean met in January 1952 at a dinner hosted by a mutual friend and immediately hit it off. According to Sheridan, they both shared a fascination with bull fighting and “he looked kind of lost. But Jimmy wasn’t a rebel, and he had no cause. I think he was just shy.” They lived together twice during the relationship. After his appearance in the Broadway play “See the Jaguar,” Dean’s career took off. “He was being hauled away into this career, and I couldn’t follow him,” said Sheridan.
