Elyse Knox Dies At 94

Former actress Elyse Knox Harmon passed away last Wednesday at her Los Angeles home. She was 94.

According to ETonline:

A contract player who starred in close to 40 films for such studios and 20th Century Fox, Columbia and Universal, Knox played the lead opposite Lon Chaney Jr. in 1942's The Mummy's Tomb, worked with Abbott and Costello and in several Joe Palooka movies based on the famed comic strip. She was also a pin-up girl during World War II, appearing in Yank magazine.


Left, Knox with Lon Chaney Jr. in "The Mummy's Tomb."

Knox married football star Tom Harmon in 1944, and her wedding dress was made from the silk of the parachute that saved his life after his plane was shot down over China during WWII.

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