Trivia

She had to use her own gowns, furs and jewels in many of the low budget movies she appeared in.

Was a good, off-the-set friend of actress Clara Bow.

Specialised in playing dizzy blondes, usually night club singers, waitresses or chorines.

A beauty contest winner, she appeared in films from 1925. Apart from a three-months spell of married bliss in 1956, she lived with her parents. She eventually quit acting to become a part-time nurse.

Worked in two-reel comedies for Mack Sennett and later played dumb blonde foils for such comics as Bobby Clark, Paul McCullough and Charley Chase.

She was briefly engaged to Joel McCrea in the late 1920s.

Her parents saw her movie star potential and moved the family from Oklahoma to Hollywood.

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Her hobbies included gardening, painting and dress designing.

She was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1926, along with Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Marceline Day, Dolores Del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray, amongst others.

Often played Southern-accented dumb blondes.

She has appeared in three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Awful Truth (1937), Mildred Pierce (1945) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

Good-looking, blond-haired actress, typically in roles conveying severe brainpower deprivation, in US films from 1925 through the early 50's.