After being elected "Queen of the New York Press Photographer's Ball" in 1945, soon after her arrival in New York City, she worked as a model for $500 a week, under the name of Pat Van Iver. By the end of the year, her pin-up photograph is voted by more than 300,000 GI's as the "picture of the year." Eight years later, her pin-up (by Stew Sawyer) is named as the best cheesecake shot of 1953, by United Press.
After marrying New York Philharmonic violinist Robert de Pasquale, with whom she was expecting a baby in May of 1963, she moved to New York City and apparently retired from the big and small screens.
Exceptional, voluptuous blonde, a former New York model, who came to Hollywood in the 40s providing set decoration (sometimes billed as Pat Van Iver) before progressing to featured roles.
In June of 1960, while on location in Papeete, the actress suffered from minor heat stroke as she worked in 120-degree temperatures for the Italian-French co-produced film Odissea Nuda, a.k.a. Naked Odyssey (1961).
In October 1954, Donlon was sued by agent Walter Thornton for $120,000 in damages in Los Angeles, under the charge of not satisfying the terms of a contract he claimed was signed in 1945.
Playboy Playmate of the Month August 1957