She was born to Maurita Kathleen Gilbert and Curtis Loys Jackson, Sr.
The Idaho native went ahead to hold her own for more than a number of years, taking on different roles before deciding to call time on her career over a dislike on the direction in which it was heading.
In 1955 Cochran engaged Pittman to make the first film Cochran made himself, Come Next Spring, his next movie.
In 1950, young Sherry became friends with actor while working with him on.
The same year also saw her date the American music critic John Rockwell, and the late American actor Ralph Taeger with whom she stayed for around a year.
There's a rumor that Idaho-born Sherry was discovered by a talent agent while she and her mother were waiting for a bus.