- Husband Palmer was an heir to a vast fortune. When he died of a heart attack in 1968, Cobina Jr. found that their spacious Carmel Valley home was all she owned. Palmer's share of his father's estate reverted, as per his father's will, back to Palmer's brothers and sisters.
- Her husband, Palmer Beaudette, was an Army corporal at the time they married in 1941. He butted heads with Cobina's assertive mother about the direction of his wife's/her daughter's career. Cobina Jr. retired in 1943.
- Both Cobina and her late husband were alcoholics. Following his death and her own recovery, she devoted much of her time to volunteering in programs at Beacon House. She also served on the board of the National Council on Alcoholism.
- Retired from films to marry Palmer Beaudette.
- Has three sons and a daughter: Oliver Joseph; William Wright: Palmer Beaudette, Jr.; and Cobina III (aka C.C.). She also has a stepdaughter, Suzanne, from her late husband's prior marriage.
- Her mother was notorious social climber and society columnist 'Cobina Wright Sr' . An aggressive and undeterred socialite when it came to clawing her way to fame and success, she pushed Cobina Jr. into a show business career which included singing, modeling and acting.
- Lived in the Santa Ynez Valley, California.
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