While this was going on, her father had been sent overseas to lead the Army Band.
Whitfield has been working in theater since 1949 and has been the lead in many shows, such as Annie Get Your Gun.
The following year, she started getting small parts on TV shows like Racket Squad, One Man’s Family, and Hollywood Opening Night. She also got a lot of small parts in movies.
In 1954, Whitfield was only 15 years old when she played the lead role in the musical comedy White Christmas.
She played Susan Waverly, who is the granddaughter of Major General Thomas Waverly (Dean Jagger), who owns the Columbia Inn hotel where Danny Kaye as Phil Davis and Bing Crosby as Bob Wallace take the stage.
Whitfield kept playing small parts in movies throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Her last movie role was in Robert Altman’s 1999 comedy Cookies’ Fortune.
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