Leni Lynn (born Angelina Ciofani; May 3, 1923 – January 1, 2010)[1] was an American actress[2] and a contralto singer.
[1] The daughter of a Passaic, New Jersey, dye-goods factory worker, Francesco Ciofani, and his wife, Carmelita, who worked in a dress factory, [4] [5] Lynn learned to sing by listening to recordings.
[6] When she was 13, friends and neighbors in Pasaic contributed 10,000 dimes to send her to Hollywood to try for success in films.
[1] In 1942, she married British insurance executive Edward Thomas Hopkin; they divorced on March 23, 1949.
[1] On January 1, 2010, Lynn died of complications of a stroke in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.