[5] He was reactivated for service prior to World War II and was captured by the Japanese and survived the Bataan Death March.

Many of her roles were small and barely clothed, before the introduction of the 1934 Production Code; she became widely recognized as a sex symbol; once being described as the most beautiful chorus girl in all of Hollywood.

[9] Since her contracted studio[specify] was mired in bankruptcy during much of her career, her work was done on loan, primarily at Warner Bros., and later after her release, on low-budget efforts on a per-film basis.

Wing completed her acting career on Broadway in the unsuccessful 1938 Cole Porter musical You Never Know, which starred Lupe Vélez, Clifton Webb, Libby Holman, and J. Harold Murray.

[12] She was well known off-screen for her romances, and was linked to Jackie Coogan (to whom she was engaged during much of 1935),[13] Maurice Chevalier, Alfred Vanderbilt, Franklin Roosevelt Jr. and others.

[citation needed] She married the pilot Henry "Dick" Merrill via elopement to Tijuana when she was 22, he being more than 20 years her senior, on October 19, 1938 in Fredericksburg, Virginia.