Sang at President Franklin D Roosevelt's Birthday Ball, The White
House, Washington, D.C., January 1942
Won the revered role of Julie in the acclaimed 1946 revival of
"Show Boat" opposite Kenneth Spencer and Jan Clayton
(of "Lassie" fame). She went on to name her daughter Julie.
On July 12, 1951, she was involved in a serious auto accident in Pennsylvania when she collided with a truck. The truck driver died and she was deemed at fault.
The Broadway show "Louisiana Purchase" landed her on the cover of Life Magazine (September 9, 1940).