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Lost out on the ingénue role in The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) to Janet Leigh, who made her film debut with this.

Retiring from the screen in the 1960s, she married comedy writer/director Jim Jordan (The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)) who was the son of the "Fibber McGee & Molly" radio couple (Jim Jordan and Marian Jordan).

At the age of 14 in 1941, she was on a bus trip to New York City for a day trip with some friends of hers and when they passed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer New York office they dared her to walk in and ask for an audition. Accepting the challenge, she entered, asked for one, was instantaneously given a screen and voice test, and upon completion was informed, "You're a movie actress" and signed to a contract that same afternoon.

Her remains were interred at Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery, Washoe County, Reno, Nevada, in the Garden of Resurrection Columbarium.

She was considered for the roles of Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard (1950), Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950), Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl (1954), and Marylee Hadley in Written on the Wind (1956), but never got any part (any, if not all, of which would have been instrumental in elevating her career and potentially gaining her a major honor such as a would have been Academy Award).