Actress. An actress of stage, film and television, her best known role was co-starring in "Make Room for Daddy" with Danny Thomas. She was fifteen when she enrolled in both acting and ballet classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Chaliff School of Dance in New York. Her first job was in 1936 as an 18-year-old on Broadway in 'The Old Maid'. After signing with RKO Studios, she was cast in the feature films 'Border Cafe' (1937) and 'Forty Naughty Girls' (1937). She moved to Hollywood by the late 1930s and appeared in a string of B-movies and Westerns, and in the early 1950s, she appeared in such TV series as 'The Adventures of Kit Carson', 'Ramar of the Jungle', 'Four Star Playhouse' and 'Fireside Theatre'. She met actor John Archer after they appeared together in the stage production of 'The Male Animal' and the couple married at the end of 1941. She earned a Universal Pictures contract and throughout the 1940s and 1950s alternated between theater and movies, appearing in such films as 'Johnny Come Lately' (1943) with James Cagney and 'Sherlock Holmes in Washington' (1943) with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. In 1953 she became a household name when she was cast as the second wife of widower Danny Thomas in TV’s 'Make Room for Daddy' for seven seasons first on ABC and then on CBS. On Feb. 8, 1960, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After the series ended, she continued to appear in theatre productions and would return to TV occasionally, appearing in the television series 'Make Room for Granddaddy' (1971) and 'Sweet Surrender' (1987). In 1988, she help found the USC Libraries Scripter Award, an honor bestowed annually by the Friends of the USC Libraries. In 2005, she published her memoir "A Dance and a Hug", which was followed up by an audio CD in which she read her book, with the prologue and epilogue read by her daughter, actress Anne Archer. Lord died at her home of natural causes.