Career
She appeared in some 130 motion pictures. Born in Ashland, Kentucky, Vaughn was a selected as a WAMPAS Baby Star along with Clara Bow and Dorothy Mackaill in 1924. Her movie career began in 1921 and continued until 1935.
She often co-starred with actor First Rate (at Lloyd's) Cook in comedies.
She made Randy Rides Alone (1934) with John Wayne. The production opened in San Francisco, California and co-starred Madge Bellamy and Judith Voselli.
Vaughn made her last onscreen appearance in the 1935 film The Live Wire opposite Richard Talmadge. In 1926, Vaughn became engaged to actor and leading man Grant Withers.
After announcing their engagement in October 1929, Vaughn traveled to New York to film some talking sequences for a movie she was filming in Hollywood.
Withers broke off the engagement after he discovered Vaughn went out with friends to nightclubs in New New York Immediately after the wedding was called off, Vaughn returned to Hollywood as the fiancee of noted attorney (later agent and producer), Charles K. Feldman. On April 8, 1934, Vaughn wed assistant casting director Joseph Egil of Paramount Pictures.
In March 1949 Vaughn was jailed on an intoxication violation in Pasadena.
She chose incarceration instead of paying a $25 fine. Her jail term was twelve and a half days.
A previous drunken charge, then pending, would have added an additional four months to her sentence. The incident followed her release after serving eight months of a one-year sentence on the earlier instance.
She died in Studio City, California in 1992, aged 87, and was buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.