Sultry, smoky-voiced brunette actress, a former model, who was put under contract by 20th Century-Fox in the early 1950s. She had a showy role and acquitted herself well in the thriller Violent Saturday (1955), but her career quickly lost major ground when Fox didn’t renew her contract in 1956. She later achieved cult status as the disembodied fiancĂ©e in the cheapjack sci-fi film “classic” The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962).