Career
She appeared in over 20 films between 1941 and 1947. Modern viewers will recognize Slater for her roles in two Three Stooges films from the 1940s. Standing nearly six feet tall, Slater towers over the short Stooge, and then manages to tear off his trousers, thanks to the pants being loosely based.
Slater also appeared as Lulu Quackenbush in Half-Wits Holiday, with Curly eating her lipstick, thinking it is edible.
Thanks to the popularity of the Stooges, Slater is seen almost daily worldwide due to the films" constant television broadcasts. Slater also appears in Charlie Chaplin"s Monsieur Verdoux, as the florist who eavesdrops on Monsieur Verdoux"s telephone seduction of his next intended victim.
In addition to her film work, Slater was a model at the John Robert Powers Agency in the early 1940s. Slater was later married to Charles Sims until her death on October 14, 1997.