She played alongside José Ferrer the role of Amy Spettigue, one of the young naive girls.

In 1952, she played the role of Tracy McAuliffe, the wife of the movie character Boake Tackman embodied by Charlton Heston, in the Twentieth Century-Fox film drama Ruby Gentry.

In 1956, along with Gordon MacRae, Ernest Borgnine, and Dan Dailey, she was part of the cast for the musical The Best Things in Life Are Free, a film biography of three composers.

She made appearances in the television series Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957-1959),Trackdown (1957), Perry Mason (1958; 1961), The Rifleman (1959), Rawhide (1959), Peter Gunn (1960), Have Gun Will Travel (1962), Laramie (1960; 1963), The Virginian (1963), Dr. Kildare (1963), Daniel Boone (1967), All in the Family (1973), Maude (1976), Charlie's Angels (1977), and Baretta (1978).

[5] Later that same year, she married actor Don Taylor, whom she had met in the Broadway production "Winged Victory"; they divorced in 1955.