Actress and writer
Was a first-class passenger on the Andrea Doria along with Ruth Roman , and her son Dickie. Was saved from the ship after going onto the port side of the ship and finding that sides boats useless because of the severe list. She was later rescued from the sinking liner.
She lost over $200,000 worth of jewelry as well as a book manuscript she was working on in the Andrea Doria accident in July 1956.
In her 1962 divorce from Cary Grant , she received over $1 million in cash plus a percentage of the earnings from the 13 films he made during their marriage.
Her grandfather, Tracy Corey Drake, and his brother built the Drake Hotel in Chicago.
Her marriage to Grant on Christmas Day 1949 took place in an Arizona farmhouse and was arranged by Grants best man, millionaire Howard Hughes.
The freedom to eat rare meat, drink red wine and not watch television,made up for the agony of divorce. .
