Born October 27, 1918· Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
† Died March 6, 2005
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Born in New York City and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey, she discovered acting after seeing Helen Hayes onstage and earned a scholarship to the Wharf Theater, where she apprenticed before moving to New York to understudy in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. A two-year run in Life with Father caught the eye of Samuel Goldwyn, who signed her to a five-year contract and placed her in the 1941 film adapta…
