Early Life
Knox was born Elsie Lillian Kornbrath in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Minnie and Frederick Kornbrath. Her parents were Austrian immigrants. She studied at the Traphagen School of Fashion in Manhattan then embarked on a career in fashion design. Her good looks enabled her to model some of her own creations for Vogue magazine that led to a contract offer from Twentieth Century Fox film studio in 1937.
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