Vivian Austin
Vivian Austin was an American actress who appeared in a number of films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, although most were B movies. Austin was born Irene Vivian Coe in Hollywood, California, and attended Hollywood High School. She was named Miss Hollywood in 1939. Austin played a variety of bit parts (as well as extra and stunt work) in movies before being cast as the female romantic lead in The Adventures of Red Ryder. She was signed to a stock contract in 1943 by Universal and as Vivian Austin (for Universal) or Terry Austin (under contract to Eagle-Lion Films) appeared in movies such as Destiny, Trigger Trail, Born To Speed and Philo Vance Returns. Her career was cut short in the late 1940s by kidney failure and resultant blindness. On August 1, 2004, Austin died from natural causes in a hospital in Los Angeles, California. Because her second husband had served in the United States Army, they are interred at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.
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Credits
- 1947 · T-Men as Genevieve (uncredited)
- 1947 · Stepchild as Millie Lynne
- 1947 · Philo Vance Returns as Lorena Blendon Simms
- 1947 · Philo Vance's Gamble as Laurian March (as Terry Austin)
- 1947 · Born to Speed as Toni Bradley (as Terry Austin)
- 1945 · Men in Her Diary as Linda
- 1945 · Honeymoon Ahead as Rosita
- 1945 · She Gets Her Man as Maybelle Clark
- 1945 · Night Club Girl as Eleanor Kendall
- 1944 · Destiny as Phyllis
- 1944 · Trigger Trail as Ann Cattlet
- 1944 · Boss of Boomtown as Dale Starr
- 1944 · Cobra Woman as
- 1944 · Twilight on the Prairie as Sally Barton
- 1944 · Moon Over Las Vegas as Grace Towers
- 1944 · Hi, Good Lookin'! as Phyllis
- 1944 · Sing a Jingle as Ann
- 1943 · Moonlight in Vermont as Brenda Allenby
- 1943 · Fired Wife as Divorcee
- 1940 · Adventures of Red Ryder as Beth Andrews
- 1938 · Men Are Such Fools as Nancy Sinclair (uncredited)