Mary Carlisle

Birth Name:

Gwendolyn Witter

Birth Place:

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Profession

Actress, Soundtrack

In 1932, she was selected as one of the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers' Baby Stars
Was discovered at the age of 14 by a studio executive while she was eating lunch at the Universal Studios commissionary
Was given a job as a back-up dancer for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio despite only taking a one-day tap dancing lesson

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