- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- The Gam Girl
- Height5′ 3½″ (1.61 m)
- Edna Waldron was born on May 17, 1913 in Kansas City, Missouri. She started her career as a model and signed a contract with Hal Roach. In 1934 she was chosen out of three thousand actresses for a featured role in the musical The Merry Widow. Edna also appeared in the movies Reckless and Our Relations. Her shapely legs earned her the nickname "The Gam Girl". Unfortunately her career consisted mostly of small parts. On May 22, 1935 she married actor Jimmy Aye and became the sister-in-law of actress Marion Aye. In July of 1937 Edna and Jimmy were both injured in a car accident. The couple were divorced the following year. They reconciled in 1940 while working together in the movie Brother Orchid. They were planning to remarry but tragically on August 24, 1940 Edna died. Two days earlier she had been severely burned while trying to save a child in a fire. She was only twenty-seven years old.
- IMDb mini biography by: Elizabeth Ann
- SpouseJimmy Aye(May 22, 1935 - January 1, 1938) (divorced)
- Was burned when she tried to save a child whose clothing was on fire. The child, Catherine Anne Bowman, is buried at Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas. The location of Miss Waldron's grave is unknown.
- Sister-in-law of Marion Aye.
- Edna was buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
- At the time of her death she was planning to remarry her ex-husband actor Jimmy Aye. They had divorced in 1938.
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