生于密苏里州圣路易斯，原名伊丽莎白·鲁思·格拉布尔。12岁进入好莱坞专业学校学习舞蹈和歌唱。1929年开始参加好莱坞歌舞片中的合唱或舞蹈演出。1932年进入雷电华影片公司，主演一些B级歌舞和喜剧片。1937年转入派拉蒙影片公司；1940年进入福斯影片公司。有着粉红色肤色和性感大腿的她在彩色歌舞片中特别耀眼，她在40年代主演的一些歌舞片如《红花艳曲》、《嬉春图》、《花花世界》、《红玫瑰》、《挂历女郎》、《火树银花》、《双姝艳》等极受广泛欢迎，从1942-1951年，连续10年在美国十大卖座明星中榜上有名。二十世纪福斯公司还特别为她那双肉感美腿在伦敦劳埃德保险公司投了一百万美元的保险。此外，她在好主演的几部歌舞片中唱的主题曲或插曲如“阿根廷之路”、“我的心告诉我”、“我不能马上告诉你”、“是你”相继获奥斯卡最佳电影歌曲提名。然而随着50年代歌舞片卖座的下降，她也于1955年退出银幕。1973年死于肺癌。

Don Ameche (/əˈmiːtʃi/; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993)[1] was an American actor and voice artist.[2][3]After playing in college shows, stock, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer of a movie contract from 20th Century Fox in 1935. As a handsome, debonaire leading man in 40 films over the next 14 years, he was a popular star in comedies, dramas, and musicals. In the 1950s he worked on Broadway and in television, and was well known as the host of NBC's International Showtime from 1961 to 1965. Returning to film work in his later years, Ameche enjoyed a fruitful revival of his career beginning with his role as a villain in Trading Places (1983) and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Cocoon (1985).