- She appeared in the magazine Yank, the Army Weekly during the WWII years and her professional acting career ended in 1955.
- Merrick lived in the Golden Valley Estates Assisted Living Centre in Yuma, Arizona and was going under her married name of Doris Hatfield.
- She attended Hyde Park High School and worked as a singer with her sisters, before becoming a soloist at NBC, she subsequently worked as a model before signing a contract with Warner Bros. in 1941.
- While a couple of her roles went uncredited she had a notable supporting role in the Laurel and Hardy comedy The Big Noise (1944).
- After appearing in an uncredited role in Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney, in 1941, she made her star film debut the following year in Girl Trouble.
- Doris Merrick was an American film actress and model.
- She was first given the name Beth Drake but changed to Doris Merrick not long after.
- She was married to boxer Max Marek from 1936 to 1944, before being married to rancher and lumberman John Meagher Knoll from 1946 to 1962.
- She married Chicago Golden Gloves champion Maximilian Marek at the age of just 17.
- Merrick was born in June 1919, to Joseph Simpson and Nellie Weber, and had five brothers and four sisters.
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