Gwendolyn Mina Munro (30 November 1913 – 6 April 1970) was an Australian actress best known for playing the female lead in Orphan of the Wilderness (1936).
[1] She grew up in privileged circumstances in Toorak, Melbourne and was partly educated in Switzerland and a finishing school in Paris.
While in Los Angeles Munro also played the lead role in a production at the Pasadena Playhouse of Dear Bill by Australian writer Jim Warwick.
[3] Munro returned to Australia, where she performed on stage in The Wind and the Rain for J.C. Williamson Ltd. She then received an offer to make Orphan of the Wilderness for Ken G. Hall at Cinesound Productions.
Munro's first marriage ended in divorce a few years later, at which point she met and married Dorr Chandler Ralph, a commander in the U.S.