- Attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills in June 1959. Later that year was found suffering from paralysis due to drug addiction and diagnosed as a "chronic depressed neurotic". On 3/23/1960 she was found dead in her apartment from an overdose of barbiturates.
- Charged over the hit-and-run death of a nine-year-old boy in July 1954. The car she was driving had been lent to her by Warner Bros. contract player George Tobias. In December of that year she was sentenced to 60 days in county jail and placed on three years' probation.
- According to an article on her by Laura Wagner in "Films of the Golden Age", Issue 78, Fall 2014, Lynn sustained a head injury while a child that may have instigated her severe emotional and mental problems in later life.
- Met notoriously temperamental producer Sam Spiegel while performing a screen test for one of his pictures. Married him in April 1948. He was 20 years her senior.
- Discovered by a top Warner Bros. talent scout on her way to a department store in July 1942. Subsequently signed to a three-year contract. Moved to Universal in late 1946.
- Became a dance instructor for Arthur Murray in October 1952.
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