Biography

Producer, director and actor, a graduate of Smith College. She later attended the University of Munich and the University of Berlin, where she also studied at the Max Reinhardt school and began working in children's theater, producing and writing operettas and plays for them. When she returned to the United States, she continued working with youngsters in New York settlement houses and ran the Harlem Inter-racial Youth Center for two years. While volunteering in schools and hospitals, she studied at the Washington School for Psychiatry and the New School for Social Research, with particular emphasis on the study of children's problems. She wrote a series of health talks for prominent physicians, worked for WJZ's Baby Institute for two years (a program dealing with children's medical and psychiatric problems), was a consultant on "This Changing World", and wrote "Superman" and "House of Mystery" for a period. On Broadway she appeared in several plays including "Judgment Day", 'Time of Your Life," "Eternal Road" and "Moon Over Mulberry Street." During World War II she was co-director of the American Theater Wing Committee for Youth in Wartime, and made many speeches for the USO, bond drives, Red Cross, OWI, and other agencies. When she took over the Captain Video and His Video Rangers series in April, 1951, she upgraded the production quality of the programs many-fold by investing in quality sets and costuming, and hiring a number of the finest science-fiction writers of the era.
- IMDb mini biography by: Louis Rugani

Was also a director on radio versions of "Superman".

Do you remember when the old Herald Tribune called Adlai Stevenson a man of courage because he was going up against 'Captain Video' at 7 o'clock?

I've always felt drama was the most powerful, forceful educational medium.

My reputation was as an educational broadcaster. I was hired originally by the "Superman" people to clean it up, because it was too racist, too violent, and parents were objecting. I was the one who wrote '... fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way.'