- First big break on Broadway was as a replacement in the Eddie Cantor vehicle "Whoopee".
- Stepmother of Pat Rooney Jr..
- Started her career as a dancer with the Zeigfeld Follies.
- Died of a liver ailment at the age of 33.
- Caused a controversy in 1942 when she married her former father-in-law Pat Rooney.
- Testified for the defense at singer and friend Libby Holman murder trial. Holman was on trial for the shooting death of her wealthy husband, Zachary Smith Reynolds, of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company. Reade supported Holman's claim that Reynolds committed suicide.
- Fell into alcoholism in the early 1930s when her career started to slip away. Retired in 1937 after filming a short Playboy Number One (1937). The rest of her life was tabloid news with her being involved with (and marrying, at separate times) both Pat Rooney and Pat Rooney Jr., whom she performed with in stage revues and nightclub shows.
- Feisty platinum blonde stage, radio and nightclub singing star performing by the age of 8. She was originally a part of the vaudeville act "The Templeton Brothers".
- Made her film debut in a couple of Vitaphone musical shorts. She appeared in only one feature film, The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) in which she played a maid.
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