Trivia

Best remembered as sympathetic hunchbacked nurse Nina in La mansión de Drácula (1945).

Universal supposedly nicknamed her "Poni" because of her horseback riding abilities, but the truth was she was given that name while working as a model for Conover just because it was different.

Once signed with the Harry Conover Modeling Agency before being discovered for pictures.

Husband Thomas Turnage was a decorated Major General with the Army, who earned the Distinguished Service Medal and Bronze Star. He later served as the last administrator for the Veterans Administration before the VA became a cabinet department during Ronald Reagan's presidential term.

Her first husband, Ens. J. C. H. Smith, was a US Navy pilot during World War II, in which he was killed in action on September 15, 1943.