Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the charming Linda Mason in the musical film "Holiday Inn" (1942). Born Marjorie Goodspeed, she was raised in Los Angeles, California, where she was chosen as being "The Child Prodigy of 1922." After taking several courses in singing and dancing per her studies at the Professional Children's School, she made her film debut in "Scaramouche" (1923). As she blossomed into a young lady of slim appearance and blonde good looks, she welcomed great success as a free-lance actress and had the liberty of floating around all of the major studios. Often typecast as a bright student, love interest, best friend, wife, mother, debutante, playgirl, cowgirl, educator, nurse, businesswoman, secretary, socialite, and, in her later years, matriarch, she appeared in such feature films as "Revelation" (1924), "Wine, Women, and Song" (1933), "College Humor" (1933), "Collegiate" (1935), "Three Cheers for Love" (1936), "Dancing Pirate" (1936), "Murder in Greenwich Village" (1937), "Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts" (1937), "Western Trails" (1938), "Delinquent Parents" (1938), "Rebellious Daughters" (1938), "Black Bandit" (1938), "Six Shootin' Sheriff" (1938), "Black Bandit" (1938), "Guilty Trails" (1938), "Man's Country" (1938), "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "Mr. Wong in Chinatown" (1939), "Racketeers of the Range" (1939), "Streets of New York" (1939), "Mystery Plane" (1939), "Danger Flight" (1939), "Stunt Pilot" (1939), "Timber Stampede" (1939), "The Phantom Stage" (1939), "The Fatal Hour" (1940), "Doomed to Die" (1940), "Midnight Limited" (1940), "Chasing Trouble" (1940), "Up in the Air" (1940), "Enemy Agent" (1940), "Dude Cowboy" (1941), "Cyclone on Horseback" (1941), "Robin Hood of the Pecos" (1941), "Secret Evidence" (1941), "Tillie the Toiler" (1941), "Top Sergeant Mulligan" (1941), "Law of the Timber" (1941), "Dixie" (1943), "Star Spangled Rhythm" (1943), "Ministry of Fear" (1944), "3 is a Family" (1944), "Up in Mabel's Room" (1944), "Duffy's Tavern" (1945), "Bring on the Girls" (1945), "Meet Me on Broadway" (1946), "Monsieur Beaucaire" (1946), "The Time of Their Lives" (1946), "Heaven Only Knows" (1947), "Bad Men of Tombstone" (1949), "That Midnight Kiss" (1949), "Customs Agent" (1950), "The Great Jewel Robbery" (1950), "Rookie Fireman" (1950), "His Kind of Woman" (1951), "Home Town Story" (1951), "Models Inc." (1952), "No Holds Barred" (1952), "Mobs, Inc." (1956), "Juke Box Rhythm" (1959), and "The Silent Witness" (1962). With the advent of television, she flourished as a household name appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Hands of Mystery," "The Bigelow Theatre," "Hollywood Theatre Time," "Racket Squad," "Gruen Guild Theater," "The Unexpected," "The Abbott and Costello Show," "The Millionaire," "The Life of Riley," "Leave It to Beaver," "Shirley Temple's Storybook," "Whispering Smith," "Surfside 6," "Tales of Wells Fargo," "Alcoa Premier," "Our Man Higgins," "Wide Country," "The Good Guys," and "Pearl." During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was a theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, was active within the Bel-Air Republican Women's Club, was a regular parishioner of the Methodist church, was awarded with a star in her name in the televised section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and presided as a chairwoman for her local charters of The March of Dimes and the American Red Cross. In addition, she was married to casting director Jack Reynolds, whose surname she took as her own during the mid-point of her career, and film editor, Jon M. Haffen; her marriage to Reynolds dissolved in a 1952 divorce and her union with Haffen produced one daughter and ended upon his death in 1985. After retiring from acting in 1978, she spent the final years of her life being a devoted grandmother and volunteering with the Manhattan Beach Public Library.