orig. Phyllis Isley
born March 2, 1919, Tulsa, Okla., U.S.
U.S. film actress.
She played leads in minor films from 1939 before coming to the notice of David O. Selznick , who cast her in The Song of Bernadette (1943, Academy Award). Selznick continued to choose her roles, and she starred in such films as Love Letters (1945), Duel in the Sun (1946), and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955). She married Selznick in 1949 and appeared in films into the 1960s.