Her film stardom was more or less sabotaged by Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck as
punishment for marrying a man against his expressed wishes. Her career
didn't survive but her marriage did.
A popular magazine cigarette girl during her modeling days for Harry Conover,
she was "The Old Gold Girl", "The Chesterfield Girl" and "The Lucky
Strike Girl" at different times.
Signed by 20th Century-Fox and groomed in bit parts, her best
known featured role was in the WWII war drama The Fighting Sullivans (1944), the true story
of a family that lost all five enlisted sons in the sinking of the USS
Juneau off Guadalcanal in November of 1942. She played a
surviving sister who joins the Navy after her brothers' death.
Semi-retired by the 1960s, she returned very infrequently to Hollywood.
One of those times was in a brief role in Once Is Not Enough (1975). which made
a semi-name out of her daughter, Deborah Raffin, who, like her mother,
started off as a model.
Former New York photographer's model.
Was hostess of her own radio and TV show in the '80s in
which she interviewed stars and attended special Hollywood events.
Was discovered by Harry Conover of New York's famous Conover Model Agency.
Signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1942 and served as a decorative ingenue
for a time. Later grew up to play the "other woman" in a few
features.