Daughter of Sir Arthur Evans Clare (c .1865-1939). Her father won his knighthood for service in India with the British army. He died in Hollywood several months after being injured in an automobile accident.
Was only five years older than Dana Andrews, who played her son in The Best Years of Our Lives.
Her throaty, heart-tugging voice was described as a mixture of "gin and tears.".
Her mother, Lady Clare (Alice), passed away in Hollywood at the age of 71.
Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.