She was born June Francis Hoffman on June 19, 1916, in
Minneapolis, Minnesota to Francis T. and Ebba V. Hoffman. She lived in
Portland and Los Angeles, attending
John Marshall High School. She began her career modeling and being a
chorus girl in 1939 and was signed under contract to
Paramount Pictures in 1941 under the name Katharine Booth. Booth was Jewish and, along with
Noreen Nash, was a frequent visitor to the Jewish Home for the Aged in Boyle Heights, California. After changing her screen name to Karin Booth in 1942, she would go on to appear in such feature films as
The Unfinished Dance (1947),
Big City (1948),
The Cariboo Trail (1950),
Tobor the Great (1955) and
The World Was His Jury (1958). She also appeared on television in
Alfred Hitchcock Presents,
Perry Mason,
M Squad,
The Lineup, and
This Is The Life. She was considered a
Joan Crawford look-alike at the start of her career and was often seen courting with
Sterling Hayden,
John Hodiak, and
Mickey Rooney. with her ashes scattered at sea. ==Filmography==