Trivia

Her career had evaporated by 1957, and the rest of her years were marred by unhappiness and alcoholism. She died of liver cancer in 1966 at age 50 with no children or surviving relatives.

Became one of Universal's top serial queens of the early 1940s.

Her parents initially encouraged her to become a nun, but an interest in modeling and dance led her to acting and she got several bit parts in films as a chorine.

She met her first husband, leading man Ross Alexander, in Here Comes Carter (1936). They married in September of 1936, only nine months after the suicide of Alexander's second wife, actress Aleta Friele. Still desolate over his late wife's death, and his own career problems, Alexander shot himself to death on 1/2/37.