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Sheila James Kuehl (born February 9, 1941) is an American politician and former child actress, currently the member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for District 3. She most recently served as a Democratic member of the California State Senate, representing the 23rd district in Los Angeles County and parts of southern Ventura County. A former member of the California State Assembly, she was elected to the Senate in 2000 and served until December 2008. She was elected to her supervisorial post in 2014.〔(L.A. Observed.com: "Sheila Kuehl beats Shriver to join Board of Supervisors" ); 5 December 2014.〕 ==Early life and acting career== Kuehl was born Shiela Ann Kuehl in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her father was Catholic and her mother was Jewish. As a child actress with the stage name Sheila James,〔 Kuehl played Jackie, Stuart Erwin's tomboy daughter, in the television series ''The Stu Erwin Show'' (also known as ''Trouble with Father'') from 1950 to 1955. She is probably best known for her portrayal of teenaged genius Zelda Gilroy, the wannabe girlfriend of the title character in the television series ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'', which aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. Zelda was originally intended to be a one-shot character in the early ''Dobie Gillis'' episode "Love is a Science", but ''Dobie'' creator Max Shulman liked Kuehl and had her signed on as a semi-regular cast member.〔 Signing a contract with ''Dobie'' producer 20th Century Fox Television required Kuehl, then 18 and in college studying theater, to change her major to English, so that Shulman, also a successful author, could act as her proctor on set in order to allow her to continue her studies.〔 Kuehl earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1962, during the show's final season. In late 1961, Fox shot a television pilot starring Kuehl entitled ''Zelda'', for what it hoped would be one of television's first spin-off series.〔Shostak, Stu (07-17-2013). "(Interview with Sheila James Kuehl )". ''Stu's Show.'' Retrieved 07-25-2013.〕 However, CBS President Jim Aubrey eventually rejected the pilot, with ''Dobie'' and ''Zelda'' director Rod Amateau telling Kuehl in private that Aubrey had found ''Zelda'' (and by extension Kuehl) "a little too butch for me."〔 Amateau did arrange for Kuehl to return to ''Dobie Gillis'' for the second half of its fourth season in late 1962, but the show was cancelled the following spring. After ''Dobie Gillis'' ended its run, Kuehl (as "Sheila James") co-starred with Kathleen Nolan, formerly of ''The Real McCoys'', in the short-lived ABC television series ''Broadside'', a female version of ''McHale's Navy'', in its 1964-65 season. She also made television guest appearances on ''National Velvet'', ''McHale's Navy'', ''The Donna Reed Show'', ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', ''Petticoat Junction'', ''The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet'', ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'' and ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' from 1963 to 1970.〔(Sheila James Kuehl - IMDb profile )〕 By the end of the decade, acting roles had dried up for her. Though Kuehl "can't state with certainty that she was blacklisted" from further acting jobs over her sexuality, she claims that afterwards, "with few exceptions, the phone stopped ringing."〔 Kuehl's only acting roles beyond 1970 were in two ''Dobie Gillis'' reunion projects: a 1977 sitcom pilot produced by James Komack, ''Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?'', and a 1988 television movie sequel, ''Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis''. In both productions, Dobie had married Zelda and the two were running the Gillis family grocery store and raising a teenage son named Georgie Gillis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sheila Kuehl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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