Flower Parry was a native Californian who broke into show business as a dancer in Nils T. Granlund's Florentine Gardens Revue in 1941. Working as a cigarette girl she met then soon married 'Jackie Coogan' qv that year and they had one son, 'Jackie Coogan Jr.' qv (birth name: John Anthony Coogan), born on March 4, 1942.