- An author who began a career in entertainment as a stunt double for such stars as Claudette Colbert and Sonja Henie in films. She turned to writing after a horseback riding injury ended this phase of her career.
- Daughter-in-law of actress Lucile Gleason and James Gleason.
- Mother of Michael Lindsay.
- Wrote a biography of Karloff, "Dear Boris" and other books.
- Daughter of Henry Hobart.
- She lost her brother and husband in the same year: On February 23, 1945, her brother, Lt. Morgan Linder Hobart, USNR, died in a plane crash in Virginia; on December 25, 1945 (some sources erroneously list it as the 26th), her husband, actor Russell Gleason, was killed in an accidental fall from a fourth-floor window of the Hotel Sutton in New York.
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