American Actress best remembered for films such as The Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade, A Star is Born, Meet Me in St Louis, Judgement at Nuremberg, Love Finds Andy Hardy, Babes in Arms, Ziegfeld Girl and A Child Is Waiting. In 1967 she said in an interview she was "only 4 feet 11".

I'm not actually thinner. I still weigh 108 pounds, but I've grown two inches. I'm now five feet three inches. (she is now taller than Rooney)
-- Hartford Courant, 1939