Trivia

Daughter of a pastor. She began her career as a model with "Harper's Bazaar" at age 17. She joined Universal under contract in 1943, later moving to Columbia where she was cast in a string of westerns and crime melodramas.

When she began her acting career at Universal, she not only got the ball rolling with a higher salary than all the other actresses starting out; she also got to meet and have dinner with Greta Garbo during her first week in Hollywood.

Kept every single W2/1099 from every single film or TV show she did and maintained them in an enormous box, which she later took into SAG, dropped on the front desk, and asked for her pension when she decided to retire in 1976.

Blond-haired leading lady in low-budget Hollywood fare of the '40s.

Cremated and her ashes scattered at Arapahoe Lake, CO.

Interviewed in "Ladies of the Western" by Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers (2002), pages 295-299.

Had three children-- two daughters and a son. One daughter is singer Mindy Sterling (not to be confused with actress Mindy Sterling).

Born on the same date as fellow 1940s-'50s actress Helen Walker.