Curiosidades

On May 11, 1941, Shannon's second husband, Albert G. Roberts (born 11 October 1902), and his friend found Shannon slumped over the kitchen table dead with her head down on her arms, a cigarette in her mouth, and an empty glass in her hand. 19 days after Shannon's death, Roberts fatally shot himself right on the spot where she died.

Appeared in a Broadway play "Page Miss Glory" which opened November 27th, 1934 as the girlfriend of a then-unknown Jimmy Stewart.

In 1931, Paramount's Bud Schulberg signed her up to replace the "It" girl, Clara Bow in the movie "Secret Call" after Bow suffered a nervous breakdown.

From 1937, her career was increasingly afflicted by alcoholism.

Was a Ziegfield Girl for a while in the twenties.

According to both the 1910 and 1920 Censuses for Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas, her parents were Edward Ham Sammon and Nannie M. Martin.

Studio publicity claimed the year of her birth as 1910, but the 1920 Census Report confirms that she was actually born in 1907.

Became stage actress in New York in 1926.