Brooklyn-born ballerina, sometime actress and minor pin-up queen best remembered being spied upon by James Stewart as "Miss Torso" in the classic Hitchcock chiller Rear Window (1954).
In 2000 she boasted that although she could not button up the pink shorts with the 21 inch waist band worn in Rear Window but she could still get them on.
Mother initially wanted her to become a stripper; she chose ballet instead.
The last day of filming Rear Window (1954) was on January 14, 1955, her birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and the film's cast and crew celebrated her birthday on the set with a birthday cake and presents.
When she met Alfred Hitchcock she had no idea who he was. He suggested that she get an agent. She did not and consequently only got paid $350.00 for Rear Window (1954).