She was one of the few "teenagers" in the AIP "Beach Party" movies who actually was a teenager, having been 17 when she made her first one. Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello were in their mid-20s, and Jody McCrea was 31.
Gained fame in the 1960s as the one and only "Dr Pepper Girl".
After retiring from show business in 1969, she married and devoted herself to raising a family.
In 1995 she moved to Hawaii with her husband and started a successful fashion-design/retail business, putting out her own line of clothing under the ADASA label.
She released two singles in the early 1980s including a country version of Dusty Springfield's "Wishin' and Hopin'".