Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the straight-laced Eloise Edgewaters in "A Letter for Evie" (1946). Born Eleanor Robin, she was raised in a working-class family. Upon attaining her bachelor arts degree from Northwestern University, she originally began a career working as a press agent in her native Chicago. After being discovered by director Del Lord during a social function at the Field Museum, he was so impressed by her blonde good looks, charm, and professionalism, that he arranged for her to relocate from Illinois to California and begin a new occupation in the film industry beginning with her being under his supervision in "Home on the Range" (1938). From there, she would go on to enjoy a fruitful career as a character actress, often typecast as wives, mothers, girlfriends, chorines, gold-diggers, dumb blondes, secretaries, nurses, landladies, retail clerks, curmudgeons, maids, waitresses, exotics, femme fatales, authority figures, and matriarchs. She appeared in such motion pictures as "For Love or Money" (1939), "Johnny Eager" (1941), "Ship Ahoy" (1942), "Let's Face It" (1943), "Ladies of Washington" (1944), "Men in Her Diary" (1945), "The Man I Love" (1946), "French Leave" (1948), "Mighty Joe Young" (1949), "Wabash Avenue" (1950), "The Sniper" (1952), "Young at Heart" (1954), "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" (1956), "Jailhouse Rock" (1957), "High School Confidential" (1958), "Wild in the Country" (1961), "Twilight of Honor" (1963), "The Candidate" (1964), "Young Dillinger" (1964), "Pendulum" (1969), and "The Black Marble" (1980). During the advent of television, she flourished as a household name appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Public Prosecutor," "The Abbott and Costello Show," "Stage 7," "Dragnet," "The Red Skelton Hour," "Perry Mason," "Peter Gunn," "M Squad," "How to Marry a Millionaire," "Whispering Smith," "The Jim Backus Show," "THe Guns of Will Sonnett," "Please Don't Eat the Daisies," "Adam-12," "Kung-Fu," "The Partridge Family," "Starsky and Hutch," and "Switch". During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been an active member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, was an active parishioner of the Temple Israel of Hollywood, was one of the founding members of the Canyon Theatre Guild, had been a theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, presided as a chairwoman for her local charters of the American Red Cross and Planned Parenthood, had been a one-time companion of Academy Award winning actor and singer Frank Sinatra, was accoladed as the 1947 Deb Star, and she was married to nightclub owner Norman Heeb from June to November 1941 and philanthropist Harry Epstein from 1947 to 1955 (both unions ended in divorce and produced no children). Upon her 1980 retirement, Raymond, spent the remainder of her life being a regular attendee at autograph conventions and being a generous benefactor for several libraries and schools, until her death from the complications of undisclosed causes.