Trivia

Died in a car crash at age 35 in Gulfstream, Florida.

Selected as a 1940 "Baby Star" by the Motion Picture Publicists Association. Became a Warner Brothers starlet the same year.

Was reported by gossip columnist Ed Sullivan in 1940 to be romantically involved with then-23-year-old John F. Kennedy.

Brunette Irish-American second lead, daughter of a prominent New York lawyer. Trained for acting at Paramount, and, subsequently, at the American Academy Dramatic School.

Was one of the Navy Blues Sextette (along with Kay Aldridge, Georgia Carroll, Marguerite Chapman, Leslie Brook, and Claire James) who entertained US soldiers during 1941.

Studied photography in New York in October 1942, effectively relinquishing her acting career. Became picture editor for a magazine. Subsequently went to England in early 1943 as a photographer and war correspondent.