Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the alluring Gloria Robloff in "The Rogue's Tavern" (1936). Born into a family of wealth and position, the daughter of luxury hotel president Elmer Woodbury and former Rose Queen turned acclaimed stage actress Joan Hadenfeldt, following her education at Hollywood High School she was given an arranged interview per her father's connections with film director Richard Wallace. Impressed by her hourglass figure, dark good looks, and immense intellect, upon taking notice of her potential he arranged for her to begin a career in the motion picture industry beginning with her appearing under his supervision per a supporting role in "Eight Girls in a Boat" (1934). From there, she would go on to flourish as a familiar character actress appearing in over 75 features. Often typecast as wives, mothers, white-collared workers, cowgirls, femme fatales, women with a past, exotics, glamour dolls, fashionistas, secretaries, nurses, retail clerks, love interests, gangster molls, faithful sidekicks, beauticians, torch singers, chorines, historical or literary figures, heroines, eccentrics, and nobility. She appeared in such feature films as "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1934), "One Exciting Adventure" (1934), "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), "Harmony Lane" (1935), "Dangerous Waters" (1936), "Anthony Adverse" (1936), "Nobody's Baby" (1937), "Charlie Chan on Broadway" (1937), "Crashing Hollywood" (1938), "Algiers" (1938), "Mystery of the White Room" (1939), "Chasing Danger" (1939), "Barnyard Follies" (1940), "Going West" (1940), "In Old Cheyenne" (1941), "King of the Zombies" (1941), "Sunset Serenade" (1942), "Shut My Big Mouth" (1942), "The Hard Way" (1943), "The Desperados" (1943), "The Whistler" (1944), "Here Comes Kelly" (1944), "Ten Cents a Dance" (1945), "Northwest Trail" (1945), "Blue Skies" (1946), "The Arnelo Affair" (1947), "Yankee Fakir" (1947), "Here Comes Trouble" (1948), "Boston Blackie's Chinese Adventure" (1949), "The Ten Commandments" (1956), "Come Next Spring" (1956), and "The Time Travelers" (1964). During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, was a regular parishioner of the Episcopal church following her conversion from Catholicism, had been a stand-in for such actresses as Gene Tierney and Hedy Lamarr, had been a founding member of the Valley Players Guild, was the hostess of her own television program "Adventure in Art" from 1963 to 1964, was cited as being the most "Photographic Actress in America" per the San Francisco Examiner, presided on her local charters of the American Red Cross and the Boys and Girls Clubs, had been a celebrity spokesperson for Lux Soap and Paper Mate Ballpoint Pens, and she was married to character actors Henry Wilcoxon from 1938 to 1969 and Ray Mitchell from 1971 to 1989 (her first union ended in divorce, produced three children, and her final union concluded upon her own passing). Upon her 1964 retirement, she spent the remainder of her life being a generous benefactor for several public libraries and art galleries, as well as partaking in charitable and religious causes, until her death from the complications of a respiratory ailment.