Was a skilled crafts-maker, collected dolls and painted rocks. Poppy also played ukulele and loved to sing.
Spotted by a film producer visiting Salt Lake City in 1929.
Her father worked as a railroad train-master.
Her husbands included Paul Power (an actor, real name Raymond Vestergaard ), Jack Crosby (a talent agent) and Victor Fehrnstrom (a retired police officer).
Was adopted as a child by his mother's sister (Jeane Chafin) and the sister's husband (John Thomas Wardenburg). Her name was changed to Jacqueline Ruby Wardenburg.