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.
Acting
Movie
T-Men
as Genevieve (uncredited)
1947
Movie
Cobra Woman
1944
Movie
Destiny
as Phyllis
1944
Movie
Men Are Such Fools
as Nancy Sinclair (uncredited)
1938
Movie
Philo Vance's Gamble
as Laurian March (as Terry Austin)
1947
Movie
She Gets Her Man
as Maybelle Clark
1945
Movie
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Phyllis
1944
Movie
Fired Wife
as Divorcee
1943
Movie
Philo Vance Returns
as Lorena Blendon Simms
1947
Movie
Adventures of Red Ryder
as Beth Andrews
1940
Movie
Honeymoon Ahead
as Rosita
1945
Movie
Trigger Trail
as Ann Cattlet
1944
Movie
Moonlight in Vermont
as Brenda Allenby
1943
Movie
Sing a Jingle
as Ann
1944
Movie
Stepchild
as Millie Lynne
1947
Movie
Moon Over Las Vegas
as Grace Towers
1944
Movie
Boss of Boomtown
as Dale Starr
1944
Movie
Born to Speed
as Toni Bradley (as Terry Austin)
1947
Movie
Twilight on the Prairie
as Sally Barton
1944
Movie
Night Club Girl
as Eleanor Kendall
1945
Movie
Men in Her Diary
as Linda
1945