The talented actress comes from a big family of German descent with three sisters.
She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before landing her breakthrough role in Gun the Man Down with James Arness and the Western film Rio Bravo, for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year… ».
When she was 18, a casting director plucked her out of the Sorbonne so she could star in That Object of Desire.