Trivia

In the Fall of 1952, she found big success as Hollywood's only female disc jockey with her Armed Forces Radio Service program "America Calling" on KCBS. She claimed she had the world's biggest telephone bill - at least $2,000 a month. Between records, she awarded a free phone call to a GI overseas and his family at home. She paid those bills herself. Only one minute of the phone call was heard on the air, after which the bosomy disc jockey lets the rest of the conversation be private from the estimated radio audience of 244,000,000. It also garnished the most mail received as well.

In the 1950s she discovered that a New Orleans stripper began using her name, and she had to take legal action to stop her.

Popular G.I. pin-up girl during the 1940s and did several layouts, including one for Esquire magazine.

Born and raised in Chicago, and graduated from Foreman High School.

She was crowned "Movie Glamour Girl of 1940" by the Motion Pictures Still Photographers Association.

Was a John Robert Powers model before going to Hollywood.

In 1949, she was named "The Most Beautiful Girl on TV" and "The Glamour Girl of Hollywood".

She is buried at Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, CA.

She was a lifelong conservative Republican.

According to an interview with Mike Barnum in the December 2009 issue of "Classic Images", she got her initial start after winning a scholarship to the Max Reinhardt Workshop in Hollywood, where she appeared as Queen Titania in a version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Although some sources list her as a Republican, she was an active Democrat for decades. She ran for congress against Ernest Z. Robles in Imperial County in 1972. She later founded Women's United International, which supported Jimmy Carter in his campaigns. Their correspondence is preserved at the Presidential Library.