American actress
Former child star on television.
In 1959, at age 9, she disappeared from her Los Angeles home and was feared kidnapped. But it turned out she had booked a flight to Washington, D.C., herself, and boarded the airplane unaccompanied. When she was taken off the plane at Baltimore, she said shed wanted to visit President Mamie Eisenhower , whom she had met previously, at the White House to ask their help to "get me a part in a TV series".
(October 2002) Co-artistic director and playwright-in-residence of Santa Monica Playhouse
During her appearance on You Bet Your Life, she mentioned that she could speak German and relayed a joke told by Groucho to her Austrian partner.
