Former child actress and singer Sally Jane Bruce was born on December 2, 1948 in Los Angeles California, to country singer Jewell Edwards. Her big break came when she won a contest by singing with a full orchestra. She had already worked on TV, radio and on Kids Will Be Kids (1954) when she was chosen by Charles Laughton to star at five-year-old against Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish in the 1955 classic film noir The Night of the Hunter.She later worked as a grade school teacher in Santa Maria, California and now lives lives in Arroyo Grande, California.