Background
Bolin was born in Spencer, South Dakota and is a member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Bolin was born in Spencer, South Dakota and is a member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Bolin portrayed Meg Boyd in both the original Broadway production and the film version of Damn Yankees. Her other stage roles include: The Golden Apple (as Mrs Juniper), Only in America (as Kate Golden), The Student Gypsy (as Zampa Allescu) Take Maine Along (as Lily), Christmas in Las Vegas (as Eleanor Wellspot), and Helen Goes to Troy, for which she used the pseudonym of Anne Bolin. Bolin worked with Marc Blitzstein on Regina the opera based on The Little Foxes.
She played the alternate lead when the work debuted on Broadway.
Bolin also appeared in a concert version of the opera Barbara Allen by David Broekman, conducted by Maurice Levine. She also appeared in a concert version of Morton Gould"s opera Desire Under the Elms, based on the Eugene O"Neill play.
Among the venues in which she sang was Café Society Uptown. Bolin did radio work in New York City for the Theatre Guild of the Air production of Allegro.
She sang Brahms lieder on WQXR for the Stromberg-Carlson series.
In the early 1940s, she was a regular singer on the Columbia Broadcasting System program Your Town and Ours.