[1] She spent part of her early childhood in Rocky River, Ohio, a westside Cleveland suburb.

[1] While working as a package wrapper at Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, she was signed to appear in films for Paramount Pictures in 1951.

She was absent from the big screen for seven years before resuming her film career in 1972 with Steve McQueen in Junior Bonner.

Among her other television appearances, she was featured in the title role of defendant Eleanor Corbin in the 1962 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Glamorous Ghost".

[citation needed] On May 4, 2011,[4] Murphy died of heart disease at her home in Beverly Hills, California, aged 80.