Shanley Lila

American stuntwoman, stunt double, actress, and athlete, who used the stage name Lila Finn. After first working as a stunt double for Dorothy Lamour in The Hurricane (1937), she doubled for many leading Hollywood actresses, including Vivien Leigh, Paulette Goddard, Donna Reed, Betty Hutton, and Sandra Dee, appearing in more than 100 films over nearly six decades. She was the founding president of the Stuntwomens Association of Motion Pictures, established in 1958, and a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. She also competed on the United States womens national volleyball team from 1955 to 1960 and won a team silver medal in the 1959 Pan American Games. In 1981, the Chicago Tribune said that Shanley, then aged 72, "may be the oldest working stuntwoman in America". It credited her long and injury-free career to her conditioning program, which involved swimming 50 laps daily and playing beach volleyball. Shanley was inducted into the Stuntwomens Hall of Fame. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Film. Lila Shanley died from heart failure on 15 November 1996, aged 86, at Saint Johns Health Center in Santa Monica, California. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less