Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the wholesome Flo Peters in "Woman of the Year" (1942). Born Gladys Timmons, she began her career as a leading lady in stock companies. Upon being introduced to director Frank R. Strayer while attending a dinner party at the prestigious Cocoanut Grove nightclub, he was so impressed by her dark good looks, hourglass figure, and petite voice, that he took notice of her potential and arranged for her to begin a career in the film industry beginning with her appearing under his supervision per a leading role in "By Appointment Only" (1933). From there, she would go on to flourish as a notable character actress appearing in over 110 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, relatives, grandmothers, old maids, nannies, nurses, educators, retail clerks, businesswomen, chorines, manicurists, beauticians, busybodies, snobs, aristocrats, playgirls, dowagers, waitresses, housekeepers, secretaries, white-collared workers, managers, reporters, landladies, eccentrics, curmudgeons, neighbors, telephone operators, city slickers, receptionists, chorines, torch singers, models, southern belles, femme fatales, authority figures, gold-diggers, literary figures, and, in her later years, matriarchs. She appeared in such feature films as "Rainbow Over Broadway" (1933), "I Have Lived" (1933), "My Weakness" (1933), "Coming Out Party" (1934), "Servants Entrance" (1934), "Racing Blood" (1936), "There's That Woman Again" (1938), "The Cisco Kid and the Lady" (1939), "The Women" (1939), "When Tomorrow Comes" (1939), "The Earl of Chicago" (1940), "Dr. Kildare's Crisis" (1940), "The Golden Fleecing" (1940), "Niagara Falls" (1941), "Married Bachelor" (1941), "West Point Widow" (1941), "The Magnificent Dope" (1942), "Who Done It?" (1942), "Ship Ahoy" (1942), "Jitterbugs" (1943), "The More the Merrier" (1943), "Phantom of the Opera" (1943), "Career Girl" (1944), "In Society" (1944), "Chip Off the Old Block" (1944), "Bewitched" (1945), "Her Highness and the Bellboy" (1945), "The Naughty Nineties" (1945), "Because of Him" (1946), "Live Wires" (1946), "Nocturne" (1946), "Fear in the Night" (1947), "Scared to Death" (1947), "Hazard" (1948), "Money Madness" (1948), "Night Has a Thousand Eyes" (1948), "Ladies of the Chorus" (1949), "On the Town" (1949), "Paid in Full" (1950), "The Yellow Cab Man" (1950), "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952), and "This Woman is Dangerous" (1952). During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, had been a regular parishioner of the Baptist church, presided as a chairwoman for her local charters of the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity, had been accoladed as a 1948 Deb Star, was a model for glamour photographer Paul Hesse, sat on the board of directors for the California Division of the Homemakers of America, was romantically linked to such notable leading men as Robert Taylor and James Stewart, had been a theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, and she was married to actor Lee Gresham (their union produced no children). Upon her 1952 retirement, she spent the final years of her life living quietly in the suburbs being involved in charitable and religious ventures until her death.