Actress. Born in Amsterdam, New York, she began her career as a Rockette on Radio City Music Hall at age 16. A fabulous dancer, she started appearing in Broadway musicals in 1940. She made her feature screen debut in “Meet Me In St. Louis” (1944), followed by a co-starring role opposite Fred Astaire in “Yolanda And The Thief” (1945). She also appeared in “Ziegfeld Follies” (1946), “Dark Delusion” (1947), “Till The Clouds Roll By” (1947), “Behind Locked Clouds” (1948), “Adventures of Casanova” (1948) and “That’s Dancing!” (1985).