Trivia

Born Pansy Wilcox, she was the sister of director Fred M. Wilcox, who directed Lassie Come Home (1943) and Forbidden Planet (1956), and actress Ruth Selwyn (born Ruth Wilcox), who was married to producer-director Edgar Selwyn, one of the founders of Goldwyn Pictures and who was instrumental in the establishment of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. She was the mother-in-law of actor Helmut Dantine, of Casablanca (1942) fame. Pansy and her siblings were the children of James Wilcox, a Kentucky optometrist and drugstore owner, who was married six times, twice to one woman. His six children were from his first wife.

Daughter Nicola (Niki Dantine) was married to Helmut Dantine.