Claim: Doris Merrick, who was born in June 1919 to Joseph Merrick and Nellie Simpson, worked as a singer, a model, and has also appeared in a film in 1941.
Evidence: Merrick was born in June 1919, to Joseph Merrick and Nellie Simpson, and had five brothers and four sisters. She attended Hyde Park High School and worked as a singer with her sisters, before becoming a soloist at NBC, she subsequently worked as a model before signing a contract with Warner Bros. in 1941. After appearing in an uncredited role in Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney, in 1941, she made her star film debut the following year in Girl Trouble.