American actress
Her wicked voice lending to Cruella De Vil in One Hundred and One Dalmatians was ranked #39 on the American Film Institutes villains list of the 100 years of The Greatest Heroes and Villains.
Southern-born and bred, she started working in radio in Chicago in the 1930s, soon moving east to New York City where she appeared in several radio shows and soap operas including "Mr. First Nighter" where she appeared with Don Ameche and met and married her first husband, Joe Ainley.
She retired from films and television after marrying her second husband, Lou Lauria, who operated a telephone answering service in Los Angeles. She was survived by a brother and three stepchildren.
