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- Birth nameElaine Cobb
- Cobina Wright Sr. was born on September 20, 1887 in Lakeview, Oregon, USA. She was an actress, known for The Razor's Edge (1946), Danger! Women at Work (1943) and Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944). She was married to William May Wright and Owen Johnson. She died on April 9, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpousesWilliam May Wright(1920 - 1935) (divorced, 1 child)Owen Johnson(February 1, 1912 - 1917) (divorced)
- Mother of Cobina Wright.
- Wrote her autobiography "I Never Grew Up" in 1952.
- Born a "poor little rich girl" on a sheep ranch in Oregon, she left to live abroad with an aunt and made her operatic debut in Germany.
- Began in New York society as a concert singer and later became a renowned hostess.
- Her second husband was millionaire Bill Wright of the New York Stock Exchange. Following their divorce she became the proprietor of a supper club that failed, and later found work as a nightclub singer at $500 a week. When daughter Cobina Jr. was 16, Cobina Sr. retired and pushed her reluctant daughter front and center.
- Youth is, in truth, wasted on the young.
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