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The sweet looking, demure actress was born to be Cinderella - a role Walk Disney gave her when she was choosen, among more than 400 aplicants, as a basis on which the catroon Cinderella would look like. A daughter of an circus acrobat, she was a possesor of many talents, but sadly her carrer in Hollywood never hit top gear, but she still had some impressive movies on her resumee - The Asphalt Jungle (1950), My Dear Secretary (1949) and so on. She was wed to mobster Johnny Stompanato, who is famous for his death at the hands of Lana Turner`s daughter, Cheryl Crane, by the time they were already divorced. Her second husband was a Beverly Hills doctor who survived her. They had a son, David. She retires from the movies very young, at tthe age of 32, to dedicate herself to family life, and charity work.