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Sheila Browning (born 18 November 1916), also known as Sheila Garrett, was an American dancer and film actress. $$3^3+4^3+5^3=6^3$$

Career
Sheila Browning was born Bonnie B. Garrett in Marionville, Missouri, USA, on 18 November 1916. Her parents were Albert A. Garrett and Lucy C. French.

Browning was one of the 30 beautiful Ziegfeld girls in the lavish and expensive film production The Great Ziegfeld, but had no notable acting career afterwards until 1961 and 1962 when she appeared as herself in four episodes of the Swiss TV series “Bonsoir”.

Family life
In 1934 Browning was introduced to actor Henry Wilcoxon by her elder sister Lynn, an actress. Wilcoxon disliked her stage name “Browning”, preferring her born name “Garrett”. After the premier of her film The Great Ziegfeld in Los Angeles she married Wilcoxon at the Beverly Hills home of his friends Heather Angel and Ralph Forbes, on 28 June 1936.

Sheila travelled with Wilcoxon to Egypt in May the next year for his film Dark Sands , where Wilcoxon related how a sheik had offered to buy her for his harem. Returning to London to finish the shooting of the film, they saw friends and members of his family, and they had booked seats to attend the coronation of King George VI in Westminster Abbey which they did not attend as he had to return unexpectedly to Hollywood for retakes of Souls at Sea. They were fortunate in cancelling their booking on the airship Hindenburg for what turned out to be its fatal flight, instead having to travel earlier on the Queen Mary. A few weeks later, they threw a large and lavish party at their Malibu Canyon home, among others attended by her sister Lynn Browning, Henry’s brother Robert Owen Wilcoxon, and actors Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Colin Tapley, Heather Angel and Ralph Forbes. Featured at the party was an airship which dropped plastic dolls down to the guests. Soon after, Browning sued for divorce, saying “both Henry and I have known for some time this would never work out”, and they were divorced on 2 July 1937, and the divorce made final in the summer of 1938.

In World War II Browning became an army flying instructor. Wilcoxon said that Sheila suddenly contacted him late in 1940 announcing that she was a good pilot. He compared her appearance then, in army uniform and hair cut short “in the best military fashion”, with her appearance when they were married “… long titian hair and bee-stung lips”.

Browning went to England became a model in Harrods department store.

In 1946 Sheila Browning married George Alfred Moszkowski at the US Embassy in Havana. He was born in Austria, was 20 years her senior and had been married twice before. It was said that "she took him for a lot of money." The couple lived in Cuba before they settled down in New Jersey. She later lived in London, but returned to the USA before her husband died in 1952, after which she reverted her name to Sheila Garrett.

Filmography
The Great Ziegfeld (1936) as Ziegfeld girl (uncredited)

Television work
Bonsoir (1961-1962) Swiss TV, as herself