Constance Moore

At 85 years old, Constance Moore has this physical status:

Constance Moore (January 18, 1920 – September 16, 2005 in Los Angeles, California) was an American singer and actress.

She had worked in wartime musicals like Show Business and Atlantic City, and the 1939 movie serial Buck Rogers, in which she appeared Wilma Deering, the only female character in the serial.

Personal life

Moore married John Maschio, her account's owner, who died in 1998 at the age 18. Both the couple had two children, Michael, and Gina. In 1944, Moore, a Republican who ran for Thomas Dewey in the Republican Party.

Moore died of heart disease in September 16, 2005, following a long illness. She was laid to rest at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

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Life and career

Moore was born in Sioux City, Iowa, but her family moved away when she was aged six months and spent most of her formative years in Dallas, Texas. She had at least two siblings, both sisters. She got a job as a singer in the 1930s with CBS radio. Her work impressed a scout from Universal Studios and she signed a contract with the company. Among the stars she worked with was W. C. Fields in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939). She appeared on Broadway in the musical By Jupiter.

Beginning in mid-1945, Moore starred with Dennis O'Keefe on Hollywood Mystery Time on ABC radio.

She retired from films in 1947 but made sporadic appearances over the next few decades. She appeared on a USO tour with Bob Hope and the Nicholas Brothers in 1951. She painted still lifes and in 1976 was the chairwoman for the Braille Institute Auxiliary in Beverly Hills, California.

Moore guest starred as Doris in the episode "Just a Housewife" (1960) on the ABC sitcom, The Donna Reed Show. In the 1961–1962 season, Moore co-starred in ten episodes on CBS as Robert Young's romantic interest in his short-lived nostalgia series, Window on Main Street.

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