[4] The Gespass sisters, originally from Lemberg, Austria, were part of the founding generation of the Yiddish theater in America.

She was also known for her guest appearances on the television show Hogan's Heroes, on which her then husband Werner Klemperer starred as "Colonel Klink".

Her other TV appearances included Kate and Allie, Room 222, The Odd Couple, Cannon, and Honey West, among others.

In the 1970s, she appeared on the long running daytime soap opera The Guiding Light, twice (as Audrey Frost Mills in 1974, and as Gladys Shields in 1978).

She appeared in the first season of Barnaby Jones (in the episode: "To Denise, with Love and Murder", which aired on April 22, 1973).