This is Mary Beth Hughes, a screen actress in the 1940s. This particular movie is "Blue, White and Perfect" a Mike Shayne story starring Lloyd Nolan. George Reeves (aka Superman) plays a good-guy G-man in this movie set mostly on a ship bound for alleged Hawaii.

Mary Beth Hughes plays Shayne's girlfriend. I was struck at her prettiness, and how my mother was pretty in that same way - a little bit more round-faced than is now fashionable.



I think this was when my mother was graduating from high school around 1945. That's Aunt Frances Keegan with her.



Aunt Frances lived in Phoenix or thereabouts. She often visited my mother's family in southwest Colorado, and we have several pictures of her. Several years ago, one of her grand-daughters contacted me looking for our branch of the family, and we are still in touch. Joanne has cerebral palsy and lives in a nursing home in the Los Angeles area.