- Made only five films before returning to her first love, the theatre.
- Appeared in scores of Broadway plays as sweet, girl-next-door types, most notably opposite Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart in "The Petrified Forest".
- Trained in dance, she started as a chorus girl.
- Started out in the obscure chorus ranks as a dancer before moving to leading Broadway status.
- Due to an absentee father and her mother's death when she was twelve, she was brought up by two aunts in impoverished circumstances.
- Husband James Thompson was a Wall Street advertising executive; their two children are Michael and Antonia.
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