- Miss Baldwin Park in a local beauty contest at age 16.
- Queen of the Los Angeles County Fair in 1953, and one of six finalists in the Miss Rheingold beauty contest in 1957.
- From the sixth grade through the first half of her sophomore year at Mt. San Antonio Junior College, she pitched softball--southpaw--for the Baldwin Park Rockettes.
- Is half-Spanish.
- Daughter of a salesman and stepdaughter of a Baldwin Park real estate dealer.
- Mother of Andrea Justine Schlatter and Maria S. Schlatter.
- On October 30, 1955, she & 14 other actresses are chosen as WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1956 by a group of veteran actors & actresses, including Ginger Rogers. The other Baby Stars are Phyllis Applegate, Roxanne Arlen, Dawn Richard, Donna Cooke, Barbara Huffman, Jewell Lain, Barbara Marx, Lita Milan, Norma Nilsson, Ina Poindexter, Violet Rensing, Fay Spain, Doreen Stevens, & Delfin Thursday.
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