Guild was a University of Arizona freshman when a Life magazine photographer noticed her.
After her picture was published in a spread on campus fashions, five Hollywood studios screen-tested her, and she was signed by 20th Century Fox.
The studio's publicity writers declared "Guild rhymes with wild!"
when hyping her first film, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Somewhere in the Night.

On the rebound from an engagement with producer Edward Lasker, Guild married fellow Fox contract player Charles Russell in 1947.
The following year, they appeared together in the  musical Give My Regards to Broadway (1948).
They had a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1949.

She left Fox and appeared in movies as a freelance and at Universal Studios, where she appeared in an Abbott and Costello picture and the Francis the Talking Mule movie Francis Covers the Big Town (1953), her last picture.
Guild was a University of Arizona freshman when a Life magazine photographer noticed her. After her picture was published in a spread on campus fashions, five Hollywood studios screen-tested her, and she was signed by 20th Century Fox. The studio's publicity writers declared "Guild rhymes with wild!" when hyping her first film, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Somewhere in the Night.
On the rebound from an engagement with producer Edward Lasker, Guild married fellow Fox contract player Charles Russell in 1947. The following year, they appeared together in the  musical Give My Regards to Broadway (1948). They had a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1949.
She left Fox and appeared in movies as a freelance and at Universal Studios, where she appeared in an Abbott and Costello picture and the Francis the Talking Mule movie Francis Covers the Big Town (1953), her last picture.
Nancy Guild