Bernadine Hayes, a former "Queen of Radio" who broke into films as a $10-a-day extra and went on to portray a series of vixens and "other women" in more than 20 motion pictures, has died.
She was 75 and died at her Los Angeles home of heart problems.
Chosen the most beautiful woman in radio in 1931, Miss Hayes came to Los Angeles from Chicago as a band vocalist at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. After several years of singing and extra work in films, she landed a role in "Absolute Quiet" in 1936.
