Hailing from Glendale, California, she entered the entertainment world as a child, appearing in titles such as Maytime (1937) and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) while attending Glendale High School and later winning the Miss Glendale beauty contest in 1947. After a stage stint at Los Angeles’s Biltmore Theater, she became a regular film presence in the 1950s, with roles in Crashout, the Humphrey…
