- Born
- Died
- Birth nameHelen Ann Wood
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Helen Wood was born on April 25, 1935 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Give a Girl a Break (1953). She died on November 1, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- As Helen Wood, she was directed by two Academy Award winners, Stanley Donen and William Friedkin in mainstream Hollywood films, before she started acting in adult films as Dolly Sharp.
- Began appearing in adult films at a time when she was an unemployed single mother. She used the stage name Dolly Sharp, wore different colored wigs, and counted on the comparative anonymity of early 1970s porn. The huge, unexpected success of Deep Throat (1972) dashed Wood's hopes of becoming a dance teacher for children, and she withdrew from the public eye.
- According to her last husband, Wood believed the only people who would see her adult films were "dirty old men in long raincoats". She didn't even know the title of Deep Throat (1972) until, to her horror, the movie started getting lots of attention from the mainstream press.
- Is buried next to her parents at Calvary Cemetery in her hometown of Port Arthur, Texas. The only hint of Wood's show biz career on her grave marker is a musical note on the cross between her dates.
- Apart from her acrobatic dance skills, Wood was a violin prodigy. At 16 she played a solo in a 1951 episode of the NBC variety program Broadway Open House (1950).
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