“See You Real Soon”: The Original Mouseketeers!

Sharon Baird Then

Shannon Baird started acting as a young girl her first appearance onscreen was at age 9 in the film Bloodhounds of Broadway. She later appeared on various television programs including The Colgate Comedy Hour with Eddie Cantor and even a song-and-dance number with Dean Martin in Artists and Models. She was later selected as one of the first ever Mouseketeers.

She performed for all three seasons of the original show. Sharon’s specialty was dancing and more specifically tap dancing. She also sang and acted while on the show. After filming she went on to complete high school, although she briefly toured with the Mouseketeers. She finished college and graduated with a degree in mathematics and secretarial science.

Sharon Baird Now

Sharon Baird continued working in show business despite her math and sciences degree and even ended up marrying singer Dalton Lee Thomas, although the marriage only lasted five years. She also worked as a “puppet” on various children’s television shows throughout the 1970s.

Some of the shows she worked on include H.R. Pufnstuf, The Bugaloos, New Zoo Revue, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and Land of the Lost. For the 1970s version of Lord of the Rings directed by Ralph Bakshi, Sharon did rotoscoping (an animation technique) for the film and worked as a live-action model for hobbit Frodo Baggins.