Biography

She began working as a fashion model in Kansas City and moved to Los Angeles in 1931.

Ronn and 11 other actresses (out of 300) won a two-day beauty contest sponsored by Paramount Pictures in March, 1932. The celebrity judges were actress Carole Lombard, costume designer Travis Banton and director William C. de Mille.

She was the highest-earning dress extra of 1934. According to an article in the Milwaukee Sentinel (dated February 13, 1935) by Hubbard Keavy, she was reported by Central Casting to have made $2,641.25 for 167 days of work that year. She averaged $50 a week.

Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Randel of Iola, Kansas.

Unless one is an extra, it is difficult to understand why I will not talk about being, as you call it, the Number One Girl. Many of the people with whom I work daily already have shown their resentment toward me by ribbing me, and I know that others have said unkind things behind my back.

I make a good living and I have lots of clothes. I make more money than a stenographer, whose ambition is to live well and wear nice clothes. Why should I want to try being an actress? No, I'm satisfied being an actress.

I don't want to be an actress because I'm pretty sure I can't act.