Biography

In December 1953, she was retired and living in Sherman Oaks, CA, USA, happily married to husband Vyrnwy Enos Jones with their 11-year-old son.

She had been seeing Joe E. Brown's son Don Brown until Don was drafted into the army. One of Brown's friends was supposed to call to let her know he was all right but instead talked her into a date. They eventually became engaged. He, too, was an officer in the Army, and while he was on Guadalcanal, he wrote Juanita to tell her he just gotten leave to come home. He was killed and an hour later; crushed by US tank that went out of control during routine movements. Don Brown also was killed in World War II.

According to a February 19, 1941, item in the Chicago Tribune, she was "discovered by a Warner Brothers talent scout as she waited for her unemployment relief check. Her contract starts at $50 a week.".

Her father, Henry Stark, was a former vaudevillian.

Her father died in 1943 shortly after her fiancée.