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 EagleLion 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