Born 1917 as Madelyn Earle Jones in Salley, South Carolina, American actress Lois Collier started her acting career as a model in the 1935 romance-comedy Women Must Dress. From 1940 through 1949, her career would be active and somewhat successful, with her playing mostly heroine roles in B-movies. Her best known film is probably A Night in Casablanca (1946) starring the Marx Brothers.
During the 1940s, Collier often starred opposite western stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, and Dennis Moore. In 1950, she starred in the sci-fi serial Flying Disc Man from Mars. She was sometimes called the Fourth Mesquiteer because seven of Republic Pictures’ The Three Mesquiteers movies featured her as the female lead.
Collier retired from acting after 1957. She died in 1999 at the age of 82. Take a look at these beautiful photos to see portraits of a young Lois Collier in the 1940s.
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