Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the straightforward Bunny Dolan in "Love Happy" (1949). Born Marion Thornburg, she was the oldest of two daughters within a traditional working-class family. Raised primarily in Battle Creek, Michigan, after her father withdrew from the family, she got her early start in theatricals performing in a speakeasy managed by her mother in order to support the family. In 1936, she began her career on the stage appearing as a singer with the Vincent Lopez and Glenn Miller Orchestras and from there she was able to begin a professional career as prominent actress in musicals and comedies; often typecast as girlfriends, debutantes, aristocrats, love interests, faithful friends, and glamour dolls. She appeared in such feature films as "Orchestra Wives" (1942), "Crazy House" (1943), "In Society" (1944), and "Babes on Swing Street" (1944). During the advent of television, she flourished as a household name appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "The Perry Como Show," "The Bell Telephone Hour," "The United States Steele Hour," "The Juke Box Jury," "Saturday Night Review with Jack Carter," and "The Merv Griffin Show". In addition, she also toured around the United States within her own one woman show and she also appeared in stock company productions of such prominent productions as "Girl Crazy," "Good News," "No, No, Nanette," "Say It With Music," "Roberta," "Anything Goes," "On Your Toes," "42nd Street," "I Married an Angel," "Helzapoppin," "The Boys from Syracuse," "DuBarry Was a Lady," "Panama Hattie," "Louisiana Purchase," "Best Foot Forward," "Something for the Boys," "Up in Central Park," "Are You With It?," "Finian's Rainbow," "Oklahoma!," "Allegro," and "Lend an Ear". During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was the older sister of fellow actress and singer Betty Hutton, had been a regular parishioner of the Catholic church, was an active member of the Hollywood Republican Committee, presided as a chairwoman for her local charters of the American Red Cross and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, and she was married to actor Jack Philbin from 1940 to 1949, writer Jack Douglas from 1949 to 1954, and composer Vic Schoen from 1954 to 1987 (her first two unions ended in divorce and her final union ended upon her death; between her first and second marriages, she mothered three children). Upon withdrawing from acting and singing in the mid-1960s, she relocated to Washington, attained her degree in psychology from Washington State University, and went on to open and preside as a executive director on her own successful treatment center, Residence XII, where she went on to enjoy a fruitful newfound career as a well respected counselor, until her death from the complications of cancer.