Best remembered as Shelley Winters's trashy pal in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue (1965) and as Sgt. Bilko's long-suffering girlfriend, Sgt. Joan Hogan, in "The Phil Silvers Show" (1955).
Had three daughters by singer/actor Ray McDonald.
Peroxide blonde, plump-cheeked character actress who played brassy dames of questionable morals in 40s and 50s films.
She was accidentally discovered by Alfred Lunt and Robert B. Sherman at an open casting call. She found that she was on the wrong stage, rushed off and literally ran into them.