- Her film stardom was more or less sabotaged by Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck as punishment for marrying a man against his expressed wishes. Her career didn't survive but her marriage did.
- Signed by 20th Century-Fox and groomed in bit parts, her best known featured role was in the WWII war drama The Fighting Sullivans (1944), the true story of a family that lost all five enlisted sons in the sinking of the USS Juneau off Guadalcanal in November of 1942. She played a surviving sister who joins the Navy after her brothers' death.
- A popular magazine cigarette girl during her modeling days for Harry Conover, she was "The Old Gold Girl", "The Chesterfield Girl" and "The Lucky Strike Girl" at different times.
- Semi-retired by the 1960s, she returned very infrequently to Hollywood. One of those times was in a brief role in Once Is Not Enough (1975). which made a semi-name out of her daughter, Deborah Raffin, who, like her mother, started off as a model.
- Former New York photographer's model.
- Was discovered by Harry Conover of New York's famous Conover Model Agency.
- Was hostess of her own radio and TV show in the '80s in which she interviewed stars and attended special Hollywood events.
- Mother-in-law of Michael Viner.
- Signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1942 and served as a decorative ingenue for a time. Later grew up to play the "other woman" in a few features.
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