Biografia

Was one of the top five pin-ups in World War II, according to a 2/15/43 "Life" magazine article. Others were Dorothy Lamour, Ann Sheridan, Maureen O'Hara and Alexis Smith.

Was the #1 pinup girl for two years in "Yank" magazine for World War II servicemen.

Was a former Miss San Antonio.

Suffered her first stroke in the early 1990s.

Had appeared, with John Howard and Walter Sande, on the first filmed television series Public Prosecutor (1947).

[on King of the Bullwhip (1950) with Lash La Rue] I did it for the money . . . it wasn't much of a picture, certainly far below the quality I had experienced earlier.

[on working with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Cavaleiros da Galhofa (1942)] They were so fresh and delightful and funny. They weren't burned out and they LOVED doing what they were doing. Every time somebody laughed, they were in ecstasy . . . Even when I saw them in other pictures, they were delightful.

[about Terra Selvagem (1942)] Marlene Dietrich was supposed to be in it but when she read the script she turned it down. She and Brod Crawford [Broderick Crawford] were having a fling at this time. She wanted to work with him but the character she played lost Brod to me until the final reel when he goes back to her and I land Patric Knowles. So, unfortunately, she didn't appear in it. Then Mae West was offered the role and she turned it down for the same reason. Constance Bennett, who was getting a little long in the tooth, didn't have any qualms and played it to the hilt.

[on Frontier Badmen (1943) and working with Noah Beery Jr.] Pidge, as his friends call him, is such a nice guy. The studio had originally planned for us to be a screen team. We'd already done two other films but this turned out to be our last one together. I did get him at the end of the film, while [Robert Paige] rode off into the sunset with Diana Barrymore, who in real life he couldn't stand. Diana was always drunk through this picture and the other one we did together, Amazonas dos Ares (1944).

[on director Ray Enright] . . . another of the good ole boys. He had just finished Indomável (1942) with John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich and we hoped this one [Terra Selvagem (1942)] would do as well. Although it didn't, I thought it was a very good film and certainly one of my best.