 In 1949, Bishop played a down-on-her-luck wife and mother in the "Sands of Iwo Jima", opposite John Wayne.She was among several former Wayne co-stars (including Laraine Day, Ann Doran, Jan Sterling, and Claire Trevor) who joined the actor in 1954's aviation drama, "The High and the Mighty".Bishop married Walter Booth Brooks III in 1936; they divorced in 1939.