- She was one of the first, if not the first, actress to be screen tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). She filmed a test on September 28, 1936.
- Broadway actress who entered films in 1938 only to exit in 1942, returning to the stage. Remembered perhaps only for her performance in 'Stagecoach' (1939).
- Alternated with her sister Jean in playing Belinda in "Johnny Belinda" on Broadway in 1941.
- Educated in New York, Manila and Hong Kong.
- First husband was theatre director Jed Harris, about whom the biography "The Curse of Genius" was written. They had one daughter. She remained married to her second husband, teacher/director Stanley Gould, until his death. They also had one daughter.
- Her father was a US Navy officer, Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Louis Platt.
- Daughter of a naval doctor and grew up in Annapolis, Maryland.
- While performing in a high school play, she caught the attention of a theater producer from St. John's College.
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