- On the day she was to sign a Paramount contract, she was found dead from an overdose of sleeping pills, instigated after a violent quarrel with a screenwriter boyfriend who walked out on her.
- Daughter of a bank cashier, of French/Italian descent.
- In 1943, with actress Pat Parrish, she modeled two-piece polka dotted strapless play-suits that they designed.
- Buried at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles.
- Curvaceous brunet starlet who showed sexy promise playing showgirl/model types in three films, Song of the Open Road (1944), It's a Pleasure (1945) and The Hoodlum Saint (1946) before her untimely death.
- Died on the same day as President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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