Trivia

She forged a lifelong friendship with McHale's Navy Star Ernest Borgnine who also hailed from the New Haven, Connecticut area.

Her father, Vincent Mondo, worked for Paramount Publix Corporation and painted wall murals on Paramount owned theaters.

She and Robert Preston, Pert Kelton, and the barbershop quartet The Buffalo Bills were the only opening night "The Music Man" stage performers to make the transition to the silver screen.

When her agent told her of auditions for the new Broadway musical "The Music Man," Mondo prepared by dressing in a sailor top, long skirt, white stockings, black Mary Jane shoes and a curly blonde wig.