A renowned beauty and movie starlet in the 1950s, she is best-remembered today as the designer of the taboo-breaking white bikini worn by Ursula Andress in the 1962 film Dr. No.

Her mother later married Noel Nethersole, an Oxford-educated economist and star cricketer who, along with future Prime Minister Norman Manley, established the People's National Party.

[3] She appeared as a Polynesian girl in His Majesty O'Keefe, starring Burt Lancaster, and then in a larger role in Manfish, an adventure film shot in her native Jamaica.

She became best known, however, for her glamor photos in magazines and her "scandalous affairs", such as a widely publicized 1955 incident in Rome, in which King Farouk of Egypt and an unnamed Italian prince allegedly came nearly to blows in vying for her affection.

[5] That same year, the swim outfit she'd created with Andress was sold at Christie's to Robert Earl, owner of the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain, for £41,125.