Her mother was cantoress and actress Fraydele Oysher and her father was Harold Sternberg, a senior basso with the Metropolitan Opera for 37 years.
She later recorded for Warner Brothers and ABC Paramount [5][6] and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Jackie Gleason American Scene Magazine and NBC's Hullabaloo, with Sammy Davis Jr.[7] She would appear with Davis again on The Name of the Game, The Flip Wilson Show, and Sammy in Acapulco.
[12][13][14] She reprised the role six months after the year-long run ended when Carol Lawrence was injured before her turn as Fanny at the Westbury Music Fair in Long Island, New York.
In 1973 she starred as the only female performer in the Emmy-nominated comedy series The Kopykats for ABC's Kraft Music Hall (Smith Hemion Productions).
[27] She has written two articles for The New York Times regarding the proposed revival of Funny Girl,[28] and has composed the score, as well as co-written the libretto, to a new musical comedy, Alysha, with son Mark Wilk.