Sheila Daly, the youngest, who wrote a Chicago Tribune teen column beginning at a very young age, eventually went into advertising as well.

[citation needed] Bazlen was "discovered" in 1950 at the age of 6 waiting for a school bus in front of her house by an NBC executive.

While her mother initially refused, she later relented and Bazlen won a part and became a regular on the show for two years, winning rave reviews.

At the beginning of each show, Bazlen, suspended by wires, would fly (as if on elfin wings) across the stage saying "I'm the Blue Fairy, I'll grant you a wish to make all your dreams come true."

She would then sit on an oversized mushroom visited by creatures such as Tugnacious R. Jones, Myrtle Flower, and an old nasal voiced wizard (which were puppets designed by George Nelle and writer-director Don Kane), and introduced stories enacted by the Rufus Rose Marionettes.

[4] Although The Blue Fairy could only be seen locally in Chicago on Channel 9, the Peabody Award it won brought it and Bazlen to national attention.

The show also inspired Ernie Kovacs into doing one of his notorious comedy sketches where Kovacs (wearing a mustache, chewing a cigar, dressed in a blue gown and blonde wig, and holding a silver wand) flew across a stage, slammed head first into a wall on the opposite side, and was then left dangling in mock lifelessness in mid-air.

Bazlen's mother, however, turned these down and instead allowed her to take a part in the NBC TV comedy drama Too Young to Go Steady.

Nevertheless, just as the film itself is now highly regarded[6][7][8][9] Bazlen's performance has likewise been re-evaluated down the years as being superb (her voluptuous seduction of a drunken lascivious Herod winning her especially rave reviews.

[6][7][8][9]) Indeed, in her review for Rotten Tomatoes, Kimberly Heinrichs states that: "This 1961 version of [King of Kings] gives historical context to the best-known Biblical tale and features many memorable moments, such as a moving Sermon on the Mount and a vixenish Salome [i.e. Bazlen] dancing for her stepfather in a performance that rivals today's MTV video offerings".

In its review of the film, Film Fanatic states: "My favorite 'Roman scene' shows the infamous Salome (played by Brigid Bazlen as a sexy teenage hussy) tempting her stepfather, King Herod (Thring), into decapitating John the Baptist (a shaggy-headed Robert Ryan) and bringing her his head on a platter; while this vignette may not be substantiated by biblical scholars, it plays well on the screen!".

"[3] Bazlen's next film for MGM was The Honeymoon Machine alongside Steve McQueen, Jim Hutton, and Paula Prentiss.

[4] Bazlen's final film role was as Dora Hawkins, daughter of Jeb Hawkins, a river pirate played by Walter Brennan in How the West Was Won, a film about the history of the western expansion in the United States as told from the perspective of one pioneer family.

She appears in only one sequence, coaxing fur trapper Linus Rawlings (James Stewart) into a trap, stabbing him and sending him falling into a lake.

Presumed dead, Stewart crawls out of a trap, just in time to save the Prescott family (played by Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead, Debbie Reynolds and Carroll Baker), whom he had befriended before, from being robbed and possibly murdered.

During the making of King of Kings, The Honeymoon Machine, and How the West Was Won, as Bazlen was still only 17 years of age at the time, she had to attend educational classes between takes in order to comply with the Los Angeles Board of Education's requirement that she complete three hours of study per day Monday to Friday.

Some of the ways in which we behave were unheard of in my mother's young days, but each generation finds different symbols to express its discontent.

"[3] Also, when asked at the same time about how she felt about her rapid rise to stardom at such a young age, Bazlen said "I realise what a lucky person I am, and I'm anxious to repay the trust a lot of important people have placed in me.