- Was handed a plum acting role in Three Russian Girls (1943) with no prior acting experience after Charles Chaplin's not-quite wife Oona O'Neill bowed out of the role.
- In 1943 made a 16mm amateur short film entitled "Mimi, Queen of the Crap Shooters". It attracted the attention of the producers of Three Russian Girls (1943), who decided to cast her in the film.
- Daughter of Chicago steel executive Arthur W. Armstrong.
- Retired after marrying producer Benedict Bogeaus, she suffered from manic depression and an emotional breakdown after her husband left her to marry sexpot actress Dolores Moran. She subsequently took her own life.
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