Born November 21, 1899, Jobyna L. Raulston became a silent movie actress who appeared in more than 90 films during her career. She made her stage-acting debut at the Wilson Theatre, also called the opera house, in South Pittsburg at age nine. Around 1915 she studied theater in New York, where she dropped the letter u from her surname, became a Broadway chorus dancer, and about 1920 made her silent film debut in short comedies. She later starred in some Marx Brothers films. In 1922 she moved to California and began her Hollywood career with Hal Roach Studios playing extras. The following year she became silent comedian Harold Lloyd's leading lady. In 1927 she co-starred as Sylvia Lewis in Wings, the first Oscar-winning film. She ended her career with two sound films, and in the last of them played a lead role in Rough Waters. Married to film star Richard Arlen, she retired in 1932 and died in Los Angeles on January 22, 1967.