Early Life
Emerson was born to Lawrence and Emma (Smythe) in the tiny community of Elizabeth in Allen Parish in southwestern Louisiana. She moved with her mother to San Diego before the war. There she took up acting and by 1940 was a Hollywood starlet.
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