Became the subject of death threats while dating Joe DiMaggio in 1964. The
FBI determined the threats came from a patient at the Agnew Mental
Hospital in San Francisco who could not bear to see DiMaggio with
anyone other than Marilyn Monroe, who died in 1962.
Was a runner up in the 1952 Miss Maine beauty pagaent.
At her parents' insistence, she moved to Hollywood in 1956 accompanied
by two family friends.