[6] Michaels had the same birthday as Franklin D. Roosevelt and was born five weeks before he was inaugurated as president of the United States on March 4.

[3][8] Her older sister, Gloria Michaels, had gone to New York City and joined the traveling cast of Brigadoon.

[9] Michaels moved to Laguna Beach, California after she married interior decorator Maurice Martiné in 1953.

[12] At the hearing, she testified that Martiné had moved them into an expensive unfinished house, without heat or water, and that he expected her to bathe in the ocean, something she didn't want to do because she was constantly catching a cold.

The turning point came after the death of her father (he died April 15, 1959);[18] he was the one who had pushed her in her career, and without him, she felt lost.

She told Associated Press Hollywood reporter Bob Thomas: "I'm convinced that most weight problems stem from mental causes.

But most people who lose weight on diets gain it back because they don't know the reasons why they crave food.

"[21] Later she told Hollywood columnist Erskine Johnson: "I favor the truly sensual photograph over the coyly teasing garter shots.

Among her final appearances was the role of murderer Jo Sands in the 1962 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Playboy Pugilist".

[23] She then started dating novelist-screenwriter Bernard Wolfe (1915–1985), who proposed to her in 1962, but she sent the engagement ring back to him with a note that read "I don't wanna.

[2] Dolores Michaels Wolfe died at the age of 68 in West Hollywood, California of natural causes[broken anchor] on September 25, 2001.