"After her family moved to Los Angeles, she wrote and acted all the parts on her own radio show, Lady Make Believe ..."

Wow.  Hard to beat that, at any time.  But back in the  1930s?  And a WOMAN to boot?  Amazing.  

Speaking of "time," undoubtedly a woman OF her time, too: radio, movies, TV.  One has to wonder what her life would have been like if she had been born in the pre-media 1870s instead of the 1900s.