- Miss North America 1940
- Miss Catalina 1939
- Traveled and performed with Bob Hope.
- Pennzoil Billboard Girl
- Survived breast cancer at 30, non-smokers lung-cancer at 60 and colon cancer at 90.
- Older sister of Rosemary La Planche.
- She won the showcase showdown on The Price Is Right (1956).
- She appeared in many Mack Sennett films as a child actress.
- In 1996, she was invited to the premiere of the animated The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), as the only surviving cast member of the original 1923 film starring Lon Chaney.
- Paramount Pictures - four-year contract (Louisiana Purchase (1941), Road to Morocco (1942)).
- Modeled for Richard Selzer (aka Mr. Blackwell) and De De Johnson.
- MGM - Three-year contract (Ziegfeld Girl (1941), Forty Little Mothers (1940)).
- Was an honorary guest at the 2000 Miss America Pageant, where she donated a $35,000 painting by her sister, Rosemary La Planche, to the organization.
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