Since first watching Gone with the Wind and West Side Story on the big screen at a young age, Sharon Harris has loved Classic Hollywood. In October 2016, she brought that passion to the Jersey Shore and introduced her “Hooray for Hollywood,” adult enrichment program for Stockton University’s Friends of Encore Learning at Stockton (FELS). Coursework began with Thomas Edison’s 1890s invention of the motion picture and the class just completed Season 10.

Sharon took years of research to launch her Hollywood history lecture series throughout South Florida and southern New Jersey in 2018. An expanding roster of topics includes Music of the 1960s and in-depth looks at beloved films Gone with the Wind, The Godfather and Casablanca. Additional programs profile the early studio moguls, Jewish Vaudeville in film, Hollywood and the 1930s Nazi threat, the film industry before, during and after WWII, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Film Noir and many more.

Raised in suburban Philadelphia, Sharon worked in public relations for the arcade and vending industries from the 1980s through the mid-1990s. She became a freelance U.S and international business and consumer journalist in 1993. In her leisure time, Sharon enjoys watching old movies, lecturing to summer audiences at the Jersey Shore, listening to Classic Rock music from her childhood and attending live concerts and theater.