Vivian Austin(1920-2004)

Nearly died from kidney failure in the 1940s. She also had debilitating eye problems from which she suffered the rest of her life until her sight was improved by Dr. Kenneth Grow, who eventually became her second husband.

[on Don 'Red' Barry, her co-star in Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)] He had such a temper! He would walk off the set--often! Stopping production just because he disagreed with Bill Witney [director William Witney], or somebody, about some minor thing. I don't like saying negative things about the departed, but he wasn't a very nice fellow when we worked together.