Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I whānau a Beatrice Benaderet i te 4 o Paenga-whāwhā 1906, i New York City. Ko tana whaea, ko Margaret (née O'Keefe), he Amerikana Irish, a ko tona papa, ko Samuel David Benaderet, he manene Sephardic Turkish, he kaihokohoko tupeka i neke te whanau mai i New York ki San Francisco i te tau 1915 whai muri i tana whakauru ki te Whakaaturanga Taiao o Panama-Pacific.
He aha? I taua tau ano, i whakatuwherahia e ia he toa hikareti e whakahaere ana mo nga tau 65, na reira ko ia te toa toa tawhito rawa atu i California i te wa i katia ai i te 1980.