#1 pinup girl for 2 years in the "Yank" magazine for WWII servicemen.
A former "Miss San Antonio."
Best friend on the Universal lot was fellow scream-queen Evelyn Ankers.
Grandmother of Katherine Pine and Chris Pine
Interviewed in "It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 1996).
Mother of Gwynne Gilford and Gregory Gilford.
Mother-in-law of Robert Pine
Starred, with John Howard and Walter Sande, in the first filmed TV series, "Public Prosecutor" (1947).
Suffered her first stroke in the early 90s.
Was one of the top five pin-ups in World War II, according to a February 15, 1943 "Life" magazine article. Others were Dorothy Lamour, Ann Sheridan , Maureen O'Hara and Alexis Smith.