Vivian Austin

Biography

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.

Most Known For

T-Men

as Genevieve (uncredited)

Trigger Trail

as Ann Cattlet

Destiny

as Phyllis

Night Club Girl

as Eleanor Kendall

Cobra Woman

Adventures of Red Ryder

as Beth Andrews

Philo Vance Returns

as Lorena Blendon Simms

Fired Wife

as Divorcee

Stepchild

as Millie Lynne

She Gets Her Man

as Maybelle Clark

Sing a Jingle

as Ann

Men Are Such Fools

as Nancy Sinclair (uncredited)

Men in Her Diary

as Linda

Moonlight in Vermont

as Brenda Allenby

Philo Vance's Gamble

as Laurian March (as Terry Austin)

Honeymoon Ahead

as Rosita

Boss of Boomtown

as Dale Starr

Twilight on the Prairie

as Sally Barton

Born to Speed

as Toni Bradley (as Terry Austin)

Moon Over Las Vegas

as Grace Towers