Conducted a well-publicized, on-again/off-again feud with Joan Collins between 1957-59.
Retired after marrying novelist/screen-writer Bernard Woolfe and had twin daughters. They were Miranda Wolfe and Jordan Wolfe who were born on July 23, 1970 in Los Angeles.
Trained in ballet, she worked as a dancer in a road production of
"Brigadoon" before appearing on Broadway in the early 1950s.
Acted on Broadway in the early '50s, worked as a model and was spotted by talent scout Ben Bard for 20th Century Fox in 1956.