Elena Verdugo, who had a prolific film career before ... Her first series-regular role was starring in CBS radio-transferred comedy Meet Millie in 1952. The show wasn’t a big hit but lasted ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Verdugo replaced Audrey Totter as the star of the CBS Radio comedy Meet Millie and continued to play the wisecracking Brooklyn secretary Millie Bronson on the CBS ...

When ABC first offered her a role on a upcoming prime-time television show about a warm family practitioner who still made house calls, Elena Verdugo ... radio comedy “Meet Millie” in 1952 ...

Elena Verdugo, who portrayed one of the first ... blonde” secretary on the radio and television versions of “Meet Millie.” But because she had a Hispanic surname, Hollywood mostly typecast ...

California native Elena Verdugo began her acting career when she was only a child, appearing in numerous studio films before her 20th birthday. As Conseulo Lopez in “Marcus Welby, M.D ...

Lon Chaney Jr. and Elena Verdugo in "House of Frankenstein" (1944). Universal Pictures, via Everett Collection; thumbnail, ABC, via Photofest Ms. Verdugo portrayed one of the first Latina ...

Elena Verdugo, who had a prolific film career before focusing ... Her first series-regular role was starring in CBS radio-transferred comedy Meet Millie in 1952. The show wasn’t a big hit but lasted ...

A California native, Verdugo landed her first film acting role at age 5 in 1931. By her mid-teens, she was appearing in multiple movies a year, including four in 1949 and a half-dozen three years ...