Lost her longtime boyfriend, actor John Spencer, on December 16, 2005, when
he died of a heart attack four days short of his 59th birthday.
In addition to playing "Josie Cohan" as a child in the 1957 "Mr. Broadway"
with Mickey Rooney, she later played the grown-up "Josie" in the Broadway musical "George M!" with Joel Grey, in which she replaced Bernadette Peters.