Although best remembered in her later years for her warm-hearted and wise maternal roles, she is also memorable as the wisecracking, cynical chorus girl Trixie in Warner Brothers' Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933).
Married for 47 Years to Clarence S. Stein, an architect and major
proponent of the "garden city" using greenbelts. Stein assisted in the
planning of the 1915 World's Fair in San Diego and was known as the
Architect of the Planned Community.
Upon her death, her remains were interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York. Her location plot is Section 6, plot 124.
Educated at Erasmus Hall and Barnard College and trained at the
Neighborhood Playhouse in New York.
Best remembered for her sweet but weary-looking moms and matrons on
stage and in 30s and 40s films.
Became a member of the Screen Actors Guild in late 1935.