Daughter of silent screen star Alma Hanlon and Broadway writer
and publicist Walter Kingsley.
She and her husband were among the earliest vintners in the Carmel
Valley (CA) wine region. They created the first vineyard there in 1968.
Former comedy writer on radio (for Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen and others) who became a leading screenwriter (and sometimes an uncredited script rewriter) in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. She later created the Bracken's World (1969) TV series.
