of Kong, as Harold Lloyd's sister in The Milky Way (1936), and as suicidal Molly Malloy in the screwball crime comedy His Girl Friday (1940) with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. She also played an important role as Tanya in Merian C. Cooper's production of H. Rider Haggard's She (1935). Her other roles included the bank-robbing ingenue opposite Richard Cromwell and Lionel Atwill in 1937's The Wrong Road for RKO. Later career In the early 1940s, Mack performed in the radio series Myrt and Marge, replacing actress Donna Damerel after Damerel's sudden death in childbirth. She was chosen from more than 200 applicants for the role. During that decade and the next, Mack also worked as a producer and director of radio programs, including such series as Richard Diamond, Private Detective; The Saint; and Meet Corliss Archer. She also co-wrote A Date with Judy with Aleen Leslie, and was its producer-director, one of the few women to fill that role in network radio. Her friend Leslie originally wanted Mack to play the title role, but they decided she was too old for the high-school-girl part when the series begain in 1941. As TV displaced radio, Mack continued to write plays and TV episodes until her death. In 1949, she collaborated with Roger Price in writing the children's record Gossamer Wump, narrated by Frank Morgan and released by Capitol Records. Private life Mack married lawyer Charles Irwin in San Francisco in February 1935 at age 21, when she was under contract to Paramount Pictures. He was a bankruptcy trustee for Fox Film West Coast Theaters. They had a son in 1936 and divorced in 1938. In 1940, she married Thomas McAvity in Santa Barbara, California. He later became a vice president of NBC. They had one son. McAvity died in 1972. Mack died from cancer at her home in Beverly Hills on August 13, 1986. Filmography Success (1923) as Ruth Zaza (1923) as Lucille Dufresne (uncredited) Under the Red Robe (1923) (uncredited) Grit (1924) (uncredited) Pied Piper Malone (1924) as Child The Struggle (1931) as A catty girl The Silent Witness (1932) as Sylvia Pierce While Paris Sleeps (1932) as Manon Cortaud Sweepings (1933) as Mamie Donahue The California Trail (1933) as Delores Ramirez Melody Cruise (1933) as Laurie Marlowe Blind Adventure (1933) as Rose Thorne Christopher Bean (1933) as Susan Haggett Fargo Express (1933) as Helen Clark Son of Kong