She wanted to become an opera singer, but was rejected by the Met because she was inexperienced and had a "slight" voice. She studied music at the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music and the Chicago Musical College.
She was known as "The First Lady of Hollywood."
The night before he died, her father told her, "Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from life's great stores."
At "Dedication Day" at Disneyland in 1955, she was asked by Walt Disney to christen the Mark Twain River Boat, which she did with a bottle filled with water from various rivers across the country.
She was an avid golfer who twice made a hole in one.
She was married to dentist Dr. Francis Griffin from 1927 to 1965. Maintaining the relationship took a lot of work on both their parts, but it evidently worked well. An interview in Photoplay magazine had this line: "I can guarantee no juicy bits of intimate gossip. Unless, perhaps she lies awake nights heartsick about the kitchen sink in her new home. She's afraid it's too near to the door."
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