into ditches, lakes, pools, through trap doors, from piano tops, over chairs and tables, down laundry chutes and stairs. I have fallen over backwards from a height of into of water and into a pool fully clothed though I can barely swim. I've been yanked around on wires, had pies and knives thrown at me, have lain amid flames of gasoline—all for the sake of Art and a pay check. But I still like it and it enables me to support my mother and myself. Like other stuntwomen, Danko risked life and limb in her work. But her most serious injury came from a mountain lion off-screen while she was doubling for Patsy Kelly in a Hal Roach comedy. While she was getting used to being around the animal, it suddenly swiped at her brightly-colored moccasin. Later she visited the trainer with the animal on the set and he encouraged her to show the animal her foot again, and move a little closer. The lion grabbed her leg and chomped down on it thirteen times. Danko received thirteen stitches and permanent scarring. Danko's career was cut short by a real-life accident when she was struck by a car that jumped the curb while she stood at a bus stop. Later life Danko and her widowed mother lived in a bungalow at 6526 La Mirada Drive in Hollywood for half a century. Danko died on February 3, 1979. Partial filmography Love Birds (1934) 3 on a Honeymoon (1934) 45 Fathers (1937) The Perfect Specimen (1937) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Street of Memories (1940) Broadway Limited (1941) Murder, He Says (1945) The Spanish Main (1945) Hazard (1948) Frenchie (1950) Soldiers Three (1951) The Searchers (1956) Sources: References Sources 1903 births 1979 deaths Actresses from Newark, New Jersey Actresses from Hollywood, Los Angeles American stunt performers Women stunt performers 20th-century American women 20th-century American people