An American actress, born in Michigan City, Indiana, USA, on May 7, 1923. She won an Academy Award in 1957 for The Razor's Edge (1946), a Golden Globe Award in 1947 for the same film, and a Golden Apple Award in 1951 for All About Eve (1950). As well as the 1960 Walk of Fame Award for Best Motion Picture. She got married to the actor John Hodiak (1953-46), with whom she had a child, then she got married to Randolph Galt (1960-1968), with whom she had two children, then she got married to David Klee in 1977, and he died 9 months later. She was born to a father who works as a salesman and a mother who is the daughter of a famous architect. She was 11 years old when she moved with her parents to New York City, the center of the entertainment industry, which encouraged her to take cinema as a profession. She worked in the Broadway theater, and entered acting school in 1937. She took an acting test in Hollywood, but she She failed, to return after two years with better luck to get a seven-year contract from Fox, which loaned her to MGM to present her first work, 20 Mule Team (1940). She returned to Fox to participate in The Great Profile (1940) and Charley's Aunt (1941). She proceeded her work in an irregular rhythm. She died on December 12, 1985 in New York City, due to brain aneurysm.