After leaving Hollywood, she traveled extensively, living in Paris and working at the Cinecitta film studio in Rome through the mid to late (she was dialogue coach on
12 + 1 (1969) starring
12 + 1 (1969)), later returning to Los Angeles to work in television as a vice president at 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, going on to produce several TV movies. She also wrote two books and was writing screenplays and pitching projects right up until her death in April 2019.