Cobina Wright, Jr. came from a wealthy aristocratic family from New York City and started her show business career as a model, being in the top ten at John Robert Powers (the most sought after agency at that time). Bob Hope used her as the basis for character Cobina on his radio program in 1939. She was friends with Dolores and Bob and appeared on his program numerous times.

Date of Birth
14 August 1921, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death
1 September 2011, Solvang, California, USA

Birth Name
Cobina Carolyn Wright

Height
5' 9" (1.75 m)

Mini Biography
Cobina Wright came from a wealthy aristocratic family from New York City and started her show business career as a model, being in the top ten at John Robert Powers (the most sought after agency at that time). Bob Hope used her as the basis for character Cobina on his radio program in 1939. She was friends with Dolores and Bob and appeared on his program numerous times.

She began a radio career and appeared in about a dozen movies during the early 40s.

Spouse
Palmer Thayer Beaudette (3 November 1941 - 7 September 1968) (his death)

Trade Mark
The song My Funny Valentine.

Trivia
Retired from films to marry Palmer Beaudette.

Has three sons and a daughter: Oliver Joseph; William Wright: Palmer Beaudette, Jr.; and Cobina III (aka C.C.). She also has a stepdaughter, Suzanne, from her late husband's prior marriage.

Her mother was notorious social climber and society columnist 'Cobina Wright Sr' . An aggressive and undeterred socialite when it came to clawing her way to fame and success, she pushed Cobina Jr. into a show business career which included singing, modeling and acting.

Her husband, Palmer Beaudette, was an Army corporal at the time they married in 1941. He butted heads with Cobina's assertive mother about the direction of his wife's/her daughter's career. Cobina Jr. retired in 1943.

Husband Palmer was an heir to a vast fortune. When he died of a heart attack in 1968, Cobina Jr. found that their spacious Carmel Valley home was all she owned. Palmer's share of his father's estate reverted, as per his father's will, back to Palmer's brothers and sisters.

Both Cobina and her late husband were alcoholics. Following his death and her own recovery, she devoted much of her time to volunteering in programs at Beacon House. She also served on the board of the National Council on Alcoholism.

Personal Quotes
It is not just the singing and the acting that I miss--it's the people. I loved all the people I worked with. CW Jr., regarding her retirement