Actress. She is best remembered for her recurring portrayal of the good-natured Mia Elliot on the sitcom "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing". Born into a theatrical family, she began her career while attending the Professional Children's School making her professional debut in "China's Little Devils" (1945). From there, she would go on to enjoy a successful career as a notable character actress appearing in over 25 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, girlfriends, servants, exotics, ingenious people, secretaries, nurses, white-collared workers, femme fatales, and love interests. She appeared in such feature films as "Intrigue" (1947), "Flower Drum Song" (1961), "War Hunt" (1962), "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964), "The Spy with My Face" (1965), "Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.," "Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding Me!" (1967), "Targets" (1968), and "House Calls" (1978). On television, she became an even more familiar face appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "The Alaskans," "Maverick," "Bachelor Father," "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," "My Three Sons," "Perry Mason," "I Spy," "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," "The Wild Wild West," "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre," "Police Woman," and "Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers". During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, had been supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was a model for the Forbes Agency, had been accoladed as the 1962 Deb Star, was a chairwoman for her local charters of the American Red Cross and the Girls Scouts, had been a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, was a regular parishioner of the Methodist church, and she was married to actor Daniel Carr from 1964 until her death in 1980 (their union produced one child). Following her withdrawal from acting in 1978, she spent the final years of her life living comfortably in the suburbs of Maine being involved in charitable and religious causes, until her death from the complications of atherosclerosis.