Character actress, who specialized in grumpy, dour spinster aunts, tough schoolmarms and the like. At MGM in the 1930s, she reprised these characterizations in 15 films over a two-year period. Best known as Mickey Rooney's Aunt Polly in the Andy Hardy series and for being Shirley Temple's nasty truancy officer in 'Captain January' (1936).
Daughter of actress Charlotte Walker.