Actress. She is best remembered for her recurring portrayal of the charming Charlotte Landers on "The Debbie Reynolds Show". After appearing in stock companies in her native Connecticut, she began her career as a leading lady on the Broadway stage appearing in such productions as "Point of No Return," "Maybe Tuesday," and "Howie". While attending a gala at the Museum of Natural History, she was introduced to actor Robert Montgomery. Impressed by her blonde good looks, charm, and professionalism, he arranged for her to begin a new found career in the television industry and she made her debut per a supporting role in an episode of "Ponds Theatre". From there, she would go on to enjoy a fruitful career as a notable character actress appearing in over 80 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, old maids, retail clerks, secretaries, curmudgeons, nurses, nannies, gossips, villainesses, chorines, debutantes, businesswomen, eccentrics, white-collared workers, housekeepers, educators, and, in her later years, matriarchs. She became a familiar face appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Danger," "Campbell Summer Soundstage," "Star Stage," "Windows," "Matinee Theatre," "The Man Behind the Badge," "Armstrong Circle Theatre," "Studio One," "Kraft Theatre," "Suspicion," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "CBS Repertoire Workshop," "Michael Shayne," "Route 66," "Gunsmoke," "The Twilight Zone," "Perry Mason," "Dr. Kildare," "Death Valley Days," "The Fugitive," "My Favorite Martian," "Hawaii Five-O," "Judd for the Defense," "Bonanza," "Mission: Impossible," "Matt Lincoln," "The F.B.I.," "The Bob Newhart Show," "Ironside," "The Rockford Files," "Ellery Queery," "The Streets of San Francisco," "Medical Story," "Cannon," "Executive Suite," "Tales of the Unexpected," "A Woman Called Moses," "Lou Grant," "Barnaby Jones," "Days of Our Lives," "Highway to Heaven," "Vietnam War Story," and "Star Trek: The Next Generation". In motion pictures, she had major roles in such films as "The Bachelor Party" (1957), "The Spirit of St. Louise" (1957), "The Girl Who Knew Too Much" (1969), "Helen Keller and Her Teacher" (1970), "Malibu Summer" (1993), and "Mad City" (1997). During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been an honorary member of the Actors Studio, was a theatrical instructor for both the Pasadena Playhouse and the Neighborhood Playhouse, presided as chairwoman for her local charters of the American Diabetes Association and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, was one of the founding members of the Canyon Theatre Guild, had been a legal advisor for the Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency, was an active parishioner of the Methodist church, had been supportive of the California State Democratic Committee, and she was married to fellow actor John Lasell from 1964 until 1974 (their union ended in divorce and produced two sons, stage actors Joe and Peter Lasell). Upon her 1997 retirement, she spent the final years of her life being a regular attendee at autograph conventions, as well as being focused on various charitable and religious causes, until her death from the complications of heart failure.