Ella Raines

When film roles dwindled she turned to television. Her second marriage was to Robin Olds, a U.S. Air Force triple-ace fighter pilot and Commandant of Cadets of the United States Air Force Academy and they had 2 children. Raines appeared as a pin-up girl in the June 2 and June 16, 1944, issues of the G.I. magazine Yank, and on the cover of Life magazine twice, in 1944 for her work in Phantom Lady, and in 1947 for Brute Force.

Born August 6, 1920 in Snoqualmie Falls, Washington to logging engineer Ernest N. Raines and his wife Bird Zachary, Raines studied drama at the University of Washington where she was discovered by talent agent Charles K. Feldman. He informed his client and sometime business partner, director Howard Hawks who saw her appearing in a play at the university. She achieved stardom almost overnight in Hollywood when she was made the sole contract star of a $1-million new production company Hawks had formed in 1943 with actor Charles Boyer, B-H Productions. She made her film debut as the leading lady opposite Randolph Scott in Corvette K-225 (1943), which Hawks produced.

In 1954 and 1955 she starred in the television series Janet Dean, Registered Nurse. She also directed three episodes. She also appeared in such television series as Robert Montgomery Presents, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, Lights Out, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse and The Christophers. After a nearly three decade hiatus, Raines' final appearance as an actress was in a guest role in the crime drama series Matt Houston in 1984.

She appeared on Broadway with Helen Hayes in The Wisteria Trees in 1955.

On August 11, 1942, a few days after her graduation from the University of Washington, Raines married her high school sweetheart, United States Army Air Forces Major Kenneth William Trout. The couple divorced December 18, 1945. On February 6, 1947, Raines married then double-ace World War II fighter pilot Robin Olds, who went on to become a triple-ace during the Vietnam War, was eventually promoted to United States Air Force brigadier general, and served as commandant of the United States Air Force Academy from 1967 to 1971. The couple had two daughters, Christina and Susan and she essentially retired to raise them. She also suffered two miscarriages and a stillbirth. They separated in 1975 and divorced in 1976. Known for her traditional family values, Raines was quoted at the height of her Hollywood career extolling them: "I am naturally captivated with the rewards that Hollywood bestows on those who are successful. But I’m going to do my best to see that these [rewards] never disturb the essential values in my life—love of husband, family, home; the things that really count." She died from throat cancer in Sherman Oaks, California on May 30, 1988, aged 67.