Made only five films before returning to her first love, the
theatre.
Appeared in scores of Broadway plays as sweet, girl-next-door types,
most notably opposite Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart in "The
Petrified Forest".
Trained in dance, she started as a chorus girl.
Started out in the obscure chorus ranks as a dancer before moving to
leading Broadway status.
Due to an absentee father and her mother's death when she was twelve, she was brought up by two aunts in impoverished circumstances.
Husband James Thompson was a Wall Street advertising executive; their
two children are Michael and Antonia.