- By 1957, reputedly earned up to $50,000 a year modeling.
- Was crowned "Miss Maryland" in 1956 and was a semi-finalist that same year in the Miss USA Pageant held in Long Beach, CA.
- One of nine models sent to Rio de Janeiro by Rose Marie Reid Swim Suits and the Eileen Ford Agency in August 1957.
- Under personal contract to Rock Hudson, from July 1963.
- Discovered by director Howard Hawks, who saw a commercial she had made for Revlon lipstick in 1958.
- Although she appeared three times in Howard Hawks' films (more often than any of his other leading ladies), she never became a movie star. Hawks tended to imply this was because she was too independent-minded and wouldn't follow his suggestions concerning her career; he described her once as "dangerous--attractively so".
- Attended McMurry University in Abilene, TX.
- Interred in Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens in Nashville, TN.
- Crowned 'Miss Sweater Girl' in October 1958.
- It has often been suggested that her correct year of birth was 1938, not 1928. Certainly, it seems rather unusual that she would have won a beauty contest at the age of 28.
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