[2] She was the fourth child of six children of Florence (née Taylor) and Daniel Raymond Coonan, who was a traveling salesman.
[3] By 1920, she had moved to Oakland, California with her family and later that decade relocated with her mother and siblings to Los Angeles.
[2] Film director William Wellman cast Coonan as Sally, a "hobo" disguised as a male, in the 1933 Depression-era drama Wild Boys of the Road.
Joe (1945), portraying a World War II army nurse nicknamed "Red" who marries a soldier on the battlefield, where he is soon killed.
[4] She died of natural causes at her home in Brentwood, California, at age 95 on September 16, 2009.