- 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.
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