Biography

The "Red Scare" hurt her career. Her great passion for free speech was tested when, in the early 1950s, she told the House Un-American Activities Committee to "stuff it".

Played often ethnic-toned support roles in post-war Hollywood, primarily in small, unbilled parts. One of her better, more visible roles came in Warner Bros. The Unfaithful (1947) as a woman who is out for justice.

Some of her own poetry has appeared in local anthologies. She also was an artist and sold paintings.

Involved with the Laguna Poets since its 1959 formation, she became the group's unpaid director in 1976, and was the main force behind the Poets' expansion into an organization that has met weekly at the Laguna Beach Library and holds three larger poetry festivals each year. She retired in 1990.

Retired from the poet's society in 1990 and went into seclusion, she later died on 25 March 2002 of natural causes at age 92.