- Was a classmate of Christine Hargreaves at Pendleton High School.
- Her parents spelled her name Sheila, but because of her Irish parentage she changed the spelling to the Irish form, Shelagh.
- Irish playwright and screenwriter, the daughter of a bus inspector. Her chief bequests to literature are "A Taste of Honey" and "Charlie Bubbles", both of which were successfully filmed.
- Had a child by comedy writer and talent agent Harvey Orkin, who was twenty years older.
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