Blonde American actress, the sister of actress Helen Marlowe (b. Helen Viola Highwood, 1904-2002).
On 22 August 1933, Corinne was the passenger in an airplane piloted by actor/musician/pilot Ron Wilson; after a series of low-flying stunts near the roofs of houses, the plane crashed into a high-tension power line and into the backyard of a residence near Glendale, California, catapulting the pair into a huge pepper tree. Miraculously, they escaped unharmed, then had to be protected and saved by police from an angry mob of townsfolk, after which they were arrested on charges of being intoxicated in an airplane. Both admitted and pled guilty, with Corinne applying for probation. Wilson, who was reportedly the first ever flier to face such charges and faced one to five years in prison on a felony charge, was ultimately sentenced to 50 days in the Los Angeles County jail (he served 39 days before being given a "Christmas parole"), followed by three years probation, as well as paying restitution for damages to the backyard of the residence he crashed into.
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