She was a teenage beauty queen and had become a wife, a mother and a divorcee before her teens were over. How could Hollywood resist her? It couldn't, of course, and no-one else could resist her, either, so the 60s and the first half of the 70s kept her very busy. Yet somehow, even though she was as talented (particularly in comedy) as she was voluptuously gorgeous, the big stardom that people kept predicting for her didn't quite happen. Her best movie role - a marvellous performance - was in Sam Peckinpah's "The Ballad Of Cable Hogue". She did a ton of TV, as well - she was, for a while, Dr.
… More Ben Casey's regular girlfriend in the popular 60s medical drama - and had a star part in the "Flamingo Road" series. Her son, Andrew Stevens, got to be a busy TV actor. Well past 60, she had a one-scene role in the TV-movie remake of "In Cold Blood", and she was still terrific.