Looking for Name of Old TV/Film Actress

Born Sarah Ophelia Colley, she was the daughter of a prosperous lumberman in Centerville, TN, and she attended tony Ward-Belmont College in Nashville as a theater major. As a young woman she favored classical music, not country. In college she focused especially on her dance classes, which would serve her well as she developed her top-notch stage presence, and after college she taught dance for several years.

Notable alumnae of Ward-Belmont include Lila Acheson Wallace, co-founder of Reader's Digest, Mary Martin of Broadway fame, Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, editor and playwright Clair Booth Luce and Sarah Cannon, better known as Minnie Pearl.