Overview

• Binder’s death at 94 was confirmed to Variety by her daughter, Annette Phillips.
• She appeared at age eight in the “Come Out, Come Out” sequence, positioned at the second little house and later seen in a dark green dress and hat in the rear pavilion.
• Selected in 1938 as one of eight children who both danced and sang, she recalled the reassurance of hearing “Bud” tell the dance director, “She’s O. K.”
• After early film work she declined a Paramount contract, earned degrees from Occidental College (1951) and Cal State Los Angeles (1953), studied computer science and theology, and worked as a computer consultant for USC and First Interstate Bank.
• She is survived by her son George Christy, her daughter Annette Phillips, and six grandchildren, and no cause of death has been disclosed.