Vivian Austin
An image from Philo Vance's Gamble, one of the productions that also features Vivian Austin.
Vivian Austin

Vivian Austin

February 23, 1920 — Hollywood, California, USA

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.

Destiny

Destiny

1944

Philo Vance's Gamble

Philo Vance's Gamble

1947

Hi, Good Lookin'!

Hi, Good Lookin'!

1944

She Gets Her Man

She Gets Her Man

1945

Adventures of Red Ryder

Adventures of Red Ryder

1940

Philo Vance Returns

Philo Vance Returns

1947

Honeymoon Ahead

Honeymoon Ahead

1945

Moonlight in Vermont

Moonlight in Vermont

1943