Wilma Cox was an American actress and singer at Hal Roach Studios in the 1930s, known for small roles in films including Feed 'em and Weep (1938), Vamp Till Ready (1936), and Canned Fishing (1938). Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1911, she lived with actress Patsy Kelly at 524 Elm Drive in Beverly Hills through much of the 1930s, a relationship later documented by biographer William J. Mann in his history of queer Golden Age Hollywood; the two shared a home decorated to Cox's taste, with Kelly reportedly having no interest in interior decorating herself. Kelly told a fan magazine at the time that the two had shared an apartment for years with no intention of marrying. Their relationship ended after Cox moved back to New York, where she found renewed success singing at the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center; Kelly followed her there, though the two soon separated for good. Cox died in New York City in February 1988.
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