Trivia

Her film stardom was more or less sabotaged by Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck as punishment for marrying a man against his expressed wishes. Her career didn't survive but her marriage did.

Signed by 20th Century-Fox and groomed in bit parts, her best known featured role was in the WWII war drama J'avais cinq fils (1944), the true story of a family that lost all five enlisted sons in the sinking of the USS Juneau off Guadalcanal in November of 1942. She played a surviving sister who joins the Navy after her brothers' death.

A popular magazine cigarette girl during her modeling days for Harry Conover, she was "The Old Gold Girl", "The Chesterfield Girl" and "The Lucky Strike Girl" at different times.

Semi-retired by the 1960s, she returned very infrequently to Hollywood. One of those times was in a brief role in Une fois ne suffit pas (1975). which made a semi-name out of her daughter, Deborah Raffin, who, like her mother, started off as a model.

Former New York photographer's model.

Was discovered by Harry Conover of New York's famous Conover Model Agency.

Was hostess of her own radio and TV show in the '80s in which she interviewed stars and attended special Hollywood events.

Mother-in-law of Michael Viner.

Signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1942 and served as a decorative ingenue for a time. Later grew up to play the "other woman" in a few features.