Life and Career
Born in Seattle, Washington, Spangler had been with the Earl Carroll Theatre and Florentine Gardens as a dancer. She lived with her mother, five-year-old daughter Christine (born April 22, 1944), brother Edward Spangler and sister-in-law Sophie, on Colgate Avenue in the Park La Brea residential complex near Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California.
Spangler had won custody of her daughter Christine in 1948 from her former husband, manufacturer Dexter Benner, (March 20, 1920 - May 7, 2007) whom she had married in 1942 and divorced in 1946.
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