Trivia

Sir John Davis, Managing Director of the Rank Organisation, proposed to Dinah on the condition that she give up acting. She accepted and retired just as stardom hit with the film Genevieve (1953). The strain of her lost career put too much of a strain on their marriage and they divorced 11 years later. Towards the end of her long life, she admitted there had been many other problems, too, and that she was deeply embittered by the whole experience. Davis had four other unsuccessful marriages.

Took the surname Sheridan from the phonebook of Hertfordshire town Welwyn Garden City.

She and actor Jimmy Hanley had three children, one died at birth.

One of her babies with Jimmy Hanley appeared in the film Holiday Camp,.

A memorial service was held for her at St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden on 9th April 2013.

Dinah Sheridan (by then Mrs Dinah Davis) and her husband, Managing Director of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, John Davis attended the opening on 28 November 1955 of the new Cecil Theatre (a.k.a. Cecil Cinema) in Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. The original cinema, sited across the road from the new one, having been destroyed during World War II. During the opening ceremony Dinah Sheridan gave the cinema's Managing Director Mr Brinley Evans a black kitten for luck. Newsreel footage of the opening ceremony is now on the Internet (search for "Opening of the Cecil Theatre").

Mother of the politician Sir Jeremy Hanley and actress Jenny Hanley.

Sheridan's original surname has been cited as both Mec and Ginsburg. Her father was born James Mec in 1893, but following the death of his father c 1915, James took the name of Ginsburg from his uncle Moshe Ginsburg. When Dinah was born in 1920 she was registered with that name. So either surname is relevant in Sheridan's origins.

By her marriage to Jimmy Hanley she had a daughter Jenny who's an actress and son Jeremy born 1951 who is an MP for Richmond, Surrey.

Contrary to several sources, she is not the grandmother of Nicollette Sheridan and Nick Savalas.