Curiosidades

Although best remembered in her later years for her warm-hearted and wise maternal roles, she is also memorable as the wisecracking, cynical chorus girl Trixie in Warner Brothers' Cavadoras de Ouro (1933).

Married for 47 years to Clarence S. Stein, an architect and major proponent of the "garden city" using greenbelts. Stein assisted in the planning of the 1915 World's Fair in San Diego and was known as the Architect of the Planned Community.

Upon her death, her remains were interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York. Her location plot is Section 6, plot 124.

Educated at Erasmus Hall and Barnard College and trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York.

Best remembered for her sweet but weary-looking moms and matrons on stage and in 30s and 40s films.

Became a member of the Screen Actors Guild in late 1935.

Cousin of S. Sylvan Simon.