Actress. One of Hollywood’s more resilient but uneventful “day-workers” (a player required for only one day’s shooting), her plaintive, parrot-beaked, chinless face showed up in over 100 films, mostly uncredited roles, and many television shows. Born Olivia Rockefeller, as an infant she was abandoned outside the doors of a church with a note bearing her name, and she would later be adopted. Growing up, she became interested in acting and in 1937, she was signed under contract to Warner Brothers Studios and made her film debut in “The Prince and the Pauper” (1937, with Errol Flynn). Her other film credits include parts in “Cowboy from Brooklyn” (1938, with Dick Powell), “Ball of Fire” (1941, with Gary Cooper), “Mrs. Miniver” (1942, with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon), “Song of the South” (1946, with Ruth Warrick and Bobby Driscoll), “Out of the Past” (1947, with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas), “Life With Father” (1947, with William Powell, Irene Dunne, and Elizabeth Taylor), “A Song Is Born” (1948, with Danny Kaye and Benny Goodman), “To Hell and Back” (1955, with Audie Murphy), and “Lucy Gallant” (1955 with Jane Wyman and Charlton Heston). Her television credits include appearances in “The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse,” “Gunsmoke,” “Wagon Train,” “The Loretta Young Show,” “Bachelor Father,” and “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color’ (as ‘Cathy Marion’ in the “Swamp Fox” series). She also appeared in several episodes of the television comedy, “Topper,” as ‘Thelma Gibney’. Her final acting role was in 1963, as a Roman Catholic nun in the television series, “Going My Way,” starring Gene Kelly and modeled after the 1944 Bing Crosby film of the same name. She died from a stroke at the age of 87. (bio by: William Bjornstad)