Born Muriel Roy in Chicago, Illinois, to Camille Roy and Amanda Anderson, she attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before she moved to Hollywood.
[1] Her credits include a number of Henry Aldrich films, in addition to dozens of episodes of CBS's The Millionaire.
[3][4] In 1947, she published a novel titled The Golden Porcupine,[5] a historical romance set in 15th-century France.
[6] Bolton also published stories in magazines including Redbook and Cosmopolitan.
[7] Her first marriage was to William Bolton; she later married educator Norman Mennes in 1957.