Actress. She will be best remembered for playing the role of 'Mrs. Herbert' in the film drama, "Middle Of The Night" (1959). The film which was directed by Delbert Mann, which was written by Paddy Chayefsky, and which also starred Kim Novak, Glenda Farrell, and Jan Norris, tells the story of a widowed businessman who becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or for director Delbert Mann at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, in 1959, and also was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor- Drama for actor Fredric March in 1960. She was born in Steubenville, Ohio, on December 28, 1904. She began her acting career in vaudeville and on the Broadway stage in New York City, New York, in several stage productions of such plays as, 'Maude Mooney' in "Ritzy" (February 10, 1930, to March 1930), as actress Ruby Keeler's replacement in, "Sailor, Beware!" (September 28, 1933, to December 01, 1934), as 'First Call' in "Play, Genius, Play!" (October 30, 1935, to November 1935), as 'Mrs. Burnside' in "Beverly Hills" (November 07, 1940, to November 30, 1940), as 'Violet Shelton' in "My Sister Eileen" (December 26, 1940, to January 16, 1943), as 'Mary Stevens' in "Last Stop" (September 05, 1944, to September 23, 1944), as 'Mrs. Mullins' in "Carousel" (April 19, 1945, to May 24, 1947), as 'Harriet Hearn' in "Courtin' Time" (June 13, 1951, to July 14, 1951), as 'Roxy Gainsborough' in "A Red Rainbow" (September 14, 1953, to September 26, 1953), and as 'The Neighbor' in "Middle Of The Night" (February 08, 1956 - May 25, 1957). During her time on the stage she worked with the likes of J.H. Brewer, Josephine Evans, Miriam Hopkins, John Junior, Katherine Renwick, Sidney Riggs, Ernest Truex, Murray Alper, John Bard, Audrey Christie, Ruth Conley, Edward Craven, Josephine Evans, Larry Fletcher, Bradford Hatton, George Heller, Ross Hertz, Harry Hornick, Paul Huber, Bruce MacFarlane, Horace McMahon, Rod Maybee, Edgar Nelson, Don Rowen, Ann Thomas, Ann Winthrop, Walter Armin, Barbara Brown, Theresa Maxwell Conover, Clarence Derwent, Len Doyle, John T. Dwyer, William Fay, Walter Fenner, Maurice Freeman, Mercedes Gilbert, Charlotte Gloer, Vaughn Godfrey, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Butler Hixon, Vera Hurst, Stapleton Kent, Linda Leeds, William Morris, Gertrude Mudge, Gavin Muir, William Norton, Beverly Parker, Sidney Riggs, Virginia Sale, Mildred Schroeder, W.W. Shuttleworth, Craig Williams, Judith Wood, Sam Wren, William Adler, Spencer James, Will Kemp, Fred Irving Lewis, William Martel, Robert Middleton, Mary Alice Moore, William Remick, Winston Ross, Hans Josef Schumm, Howard Smith, and Ruthelma Stevens, among many others. She eventually made the transition from the stage to television and film. She made her television debut in an episode entitled, "St. Peterburg Dilemma," of the dramatic television series, "The Web," which originally aired in 1951, and which also starred E.G. Marshall, Leslie Nielsen, and Mildred Dunnock. The television series was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 1954, and two Edgar Allan Poe Awards in 1951 and 1952. This was her only television appearance. Besides, "Middle Of The Night" (1959), her only other film role was playing 'Ma Parks' in the biographical crime film drama, "Pretty Boy Floyd" (1960). The film which was directed and written by Herbert J. Feder, and which also starred John Ericson, Barry Newman, and Roy Fant, tells the story of Charles Arthur Floyd who finds work on an oil rig after serving time for armed robbery; but when he becomes involved with a married woman, her husband swears revenge. Floyd's boss doesn't know that his new employee was a jailbird. She retired from acting shortly thereafter and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with her husband in 1970. She passed away from heart failure in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on August 7, 1987, at the age of 82. Her funeral services were held at the Jordan Fannin Guardian Chapel in Fort Lauderdale, Flordia, and she was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens North in Pompano Beach, Florida. She was married to CBS programming Vice President Robert Milford (1900-1984), who predeceased her. She had one child, a son named Austin.