- Had a key role in the critically lauded film Sweet Smell of Success (1957) as Tony Curtis' secretary, but her role was cut extensively, including a big romantic scene with Curtis that might have reignited her movie career.
- Lived in Towson, MD during her youth and was a 1938 graduate of the Towson Senior High School.
- Close friends with Gloria Grahame.
- Had two children by her (much older) first husband Bill Anderson: Michael Phineas (nicknamed Mickey Finn), born in 1942, and Sarah Jane (Sally), born 1947.
- Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea in the Pacific Ocean.
- She is prominently featured as a character in the mystery novels, "Dead in the Shadows", "Dead on Their Trail", and "Dead During Intermission" by John Dandola.
- She was a staunch Republican who gave much of her time and money towards various conservative political causes. She attended several Republican National Conventions, galas, and fund-raisers, and she was active in the campaigns of Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.
- Her favorite movie was Gone with the Wind (1939).
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