Trivia

Made news in the 1980s when she refused to move from her apartment building after it was purchased by Donald Trump. He wanted to evict her in order to tear down the building, but after going to court, she was allowed to stay. In 1998, it was ruled that Trump could turn the apartments into condos, and she was, therefore, given $750,000 compensation.

The actress, whose legs were once insured for $1 million, appeared decoratively in a few of The Three Stooges shorts, including What's the Matador? (1942), Yes, We Have No Bonanza (1939) and Disorder in the Court (1936).

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. offered her a part as one of the Ziegfeld Follies at the age of 15, but her parents refused him.

Was one of The Radio City Rockettes at New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall.

The second wife of Sidney Blackmer, she lived in his family home in Salisbury, NC, after his death in 1973 and stayed there until it was ravaged in a fire (by a rolled-out log she had burning in a fireplace) in 1984. She later deeded the burned-out home to her son Jonathan, a Washington attorney. Her second son is named Brewster.

Arrived in Hollywood under contract to 20th Century-Fox and later MGM, but in a most erratic career that continually moved from unbilled roles to co-star parts. Best known probably as the young ingénue in one of Bela Lugosi's lesser horrors The Devil Bat (1940), which had Lugosi as a madman who raises bats and trains them to suck victims' blood at will.

Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Science Fiction Confidential" (McFarland & Co., 2002).