Along with her adult son, was spokesperson for the See Clearly Method (a VHS/DVD tutorial by Vision Improvement Technologies to naturally correct impaired vision) in 2003.
Educated at Carnegie Tech
Former actress-turned-nun Dolores Hart is Mariette's spiritual advisor, and by happenstance gave Mariette the inspired title of her one-woman show, "If You Get to Bethlehem, You've Gone Too Far." It seems those are the driving directions Sister Dolores gives when describing how to get to her convent in Woodbury, Connecticut.
In 2006, she performed her one-woman show "If You Get to Bethlehem, You've Gone Too Far," which is based on her 1990 best-selling biography "Breaking the Silence." Mariette enacts eleven characters from her memories as a child living in a home beset by acute depression and alcoholism.
Is the grand niece of FDR's famous Secretary of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes.
Mariette was not allowed to show her belly button in Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek" (1966) episode, "Star Trek: All Our Yesterdays (#3.23)" (1969), due to censors. But Gene got even: he had Mariette show TWO belly buttons in Genesis II (1973) (TV).
National spokesperson for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and works assertively with many organizations that deal with mental illness. Her father, uncle and cousin all committed suicide.
Rose in celebrity with her notable Polaroid commercial run with James Garner starting in 1977. She and Garner were so naturally convincing as husband and wife that Mariette had a tee-shirt that proclaimed, "I am not James Garner's wife!" More than 300 commercials were produced.
She is the grand-daughter of psychologist John Broadus Watson
Was the head of her high school drama department.
Was the spokesperson for Eddie Z's blinds and drapery commercials in the mid to late 90s
Won an Emmy Award for her role in the memorable 1978 TV movie "The Incredible Hulk: Married (#2.1)" (1978) which co-starred the late Bill Bixby. Hartley and Bixby worked together on the pilot episode for "Diagnosis Murder" (1993) and the television series "Goodnight, Beantown" (1983).