Carl Van Vechten · Public domain

Played the leading lady opposite the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera (1935) before building a decades-long second career as a television personality, appearing as a panelist on To Tell the Truth from 1956 to 1978. She spent twenty years on the New York State Council on the Arts, advocating for public arts funding, and received the National Medal of Arts from President George H.W. Bush in 1991.