Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of her the headstrong Adele Martin in "Bright Eyes" (1934). Born Marie Elliot, after attaining her degree in theatrical arts from the Leland Powers School in Boston, Massachusetts, she began her career as a leading lady in stock companies. After being discovered by director Cecil B. DeMille while attending a social function at the prestigious Cocoanut Grove nightclub, he was so impressed by her blonde good looks, charm, and slim physique, that he arranged for her to begin a career in the film industry beginning with her appearing in a supporting role per his supervision in "This Day and Age" (1933). From there, she would go on to enjoy a successful career as a character actress appearing in over 35 features; often typecast as girlfriends, singers, glamour dolls, chorines, manicurists, secretaries, nurses, educators, socialites, reporters, detectives, femme fatales, gold diggers, fashionistas, playgirls, faithful friends, wives, and mothers. She appeared in such feature films as "The Thundering Herd" (1933), "Too Much Harmony" (1933), "Marrying Windows" (1934), "Night Alarm" (1934), "Reckless Roads" (1935), "The Healer" (1935), "Burning Gold" (1936), "Beware of Ladies" (1936), "Telephone Operators" (1937), "Navy Spy" (1937), "Port of Missing Girls" (1938), "Tough Kid" (1938), "The Women" (1939), "Romance of the Potato" (1939), "Framed" (1940), "Sky Murders" (1940), "I Shot Billy the Kid" (1950), "Train to Tombstone" (1950), "One Wild Night" (1951), and "Something to Live For" (1952). During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, had been a regular parishioner of the Presbyterian church, was a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, had been a model for the Walter Thornton Agency, presided as a chairwoman for her local charters of the American Red Cross and Shriner's Hospitals for Children, was the celebrity spokeswoman for New York Life Insurance Company, had been a vocal instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, and she was married to professional wrestler Gus Sonnenberg from 1931 to 1933, athlete Jack Doyle from 1935 to 1938, and publisher Rudolph Field from 1941 to 1945 (all unions ended in divorce and produced no children). Following her 1952 retirement, she spent the remainder of her life being an ordained minister for the Metalphysics Teaching and Retreat Center in Joshua Tree, California, where she lived and taught until her death.