Her early life unfolded at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where her father, a career Army surgeon and Spanish-American War veteran, was stationed; through him she traced ancestry to Revolutionary-War soldier Asahel Ives. After a stage debut in a Washington, D.C., stock company in 1913, she left the profession in 1921 to raise nine children, returning to acting in 1952 once the youngest reached adulthood. Th…
