Artist Info: Pony Sherrell

Pony Sherrell Metcalf performed with her sister as the Sherrell Sisters and later worked in Hollywood musicals and nightclub acts.

Born Doris Gislen in New York, she started out in radio with her sister Grace. As the Sherrell Sisters, they appeared on the “Horn And Hardart Hour,” “Uncle Don’s Radio Show” and on the Loews and RKO circuits. The team eventually got its own radio show on WOR New York.

Later, the sisters performed with Rudy Vallee, Ken Murray’s Blackouts and the singer Gene Austin. [read more...]