[2] Her father was president of the Bethel Township School Board for 16 years,[3] and her grandfather, G. E. Letchworth, was a Methodist minister.
[3] In 1953, Letchworth was one of three recipients of the first Faculty Fund scholarships to attend the American Theatre Wing Professional Training Program.
[1] Her other roles on stage included "a slickly sophisticted suburbanite" in Spofford at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1969.
[7] She played Amanda in The Glass Menagerie at the Rodale Theater in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1980,[8] and she portrayed Flora Van Huysen in an off-Broadway production of The Matchmaker (1991).
[9] In 1974, Letchworth received attention for having the results of her own facelift shown on network television as part of the ABC soap opera All My Children.
Letchworth used no makeup on the program for about a month, allowing the cameras to show the healing of her face from its post-surgery puffiness and black eyes.