Career
Born in Huntington Park, California, as Lorraine Gourley, she played in films during the 1940s and early 1950s. She is perhaps best known for her first role in 1943 as the comic strip character Dixie Dugan in the Twentieth Century Fox film of the same name. He produced a number of films in which she had minor roles, including The Desert Hawk (1950), and Meet Maine After the Show (1951).
They had a son, child actor and film director Kevin Brodie.
She died of lung cancer at the age of 44.