Harry Cohn saw her Life magazine cover and initially signed her for the role of the prostitute in From Here to Eternity (1953). The casting was negated by director Fred Zinnemann and Rosemarie was replaced by Donna Reed, who went on to win the Supporting Actress Oscar.
Robert Stack proposed to her on January 8, 1956 while shooting Written on the Wind (1956), and they married two weeks later on January 23rd.
During filming of The Golden Mistress (1954), she almost drowned, was stung by a sea urchin with three hundred needles and sustained assorted bumps, bruises and insect bites.
Measurements: 36-23-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Mother of actress Elizabeth Stack.
On October 15, 1969, she was driving to Sacramento's Metropolitan Airport to pick up Fred MacMurray and his wife when the steering in the rental car she was driving locked. The car plunged into a concrete culvert, resulting in the death of Art Lund's wife Kathleen and injury to another passenger and herself. She required plastic surgery and suffered internal injuries. She settled in 1973 with Lund for $40,000, and lost her suit with the Ford Motor Company.
She talks about the beginnings of his career, the movie "The Golden Mistress" (1954) and her marriage to Robert Stack in the book "A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde" (McFarland, 2010) by Tom Weaver.