Sheila Kuehl
Kuehl was born Sheila Ann Kuehl in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her father, Arthur, was an airplane construction worker at Douglas Aircraft. He was Catholic and her mother, Lillian, was Jewish. As a child actress she performed under the stage name Sheila James.
Sheila Hibben
She was born Celia Craik in 1888, in Montgomery, Alabama, and grew up in Italy and France. She served in World War I as a nurse, and received the Croix de Guerre. She married Paxton Hibben in 1916 in Athens, and the couple spent several years in Europe.