- She met Ed Axton while touring with Edith Piaf at the "Blue Grass Room" in Kentucky - they later were married and had three children - two boys and a girl.
- Came to Hollywood after winning a contest playing concert piano.
- Diminutive, blue-eyed singer and actress, the daughter of an usher and one one of eight siblings. Came to notice after winning a beauty contest at the Chicago World Fair and subsequently had a brief career in Hollywood musicals and comedies. When that petered out, she returned to the nightclub/hotel circuit as a vocalist and left showbiz in the 40's to become a Kentucky socialite.
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