- Best remembered as sympathetic hunchbacked nurse Nina in House of Dracula (1945).
- Husband Thomas Turnage was a decorated Major General with the Army, who earned the Distinguished Service Medal and Bronze Star. He later served as the last administrator for the Veterans Administration before the VA became a cabinet department during Ronald Reagan's presidential term.
- Universal supposedly nicknamed her "Poni" because of her horseback riding abilities, but the truth was she was given that name while working as a model for Conover just because it was different.
- Once signed with the Harry Conover Modeling Agency before being discovered for pictures.
- Her first husband, Ens. J. C. H. Smith, was a US Navy pilot during World War II, in which he was killed in action on September 15, 1943.
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