- In 1948, aged 17, Prinz appeared in a feature film for the Navy about VD, called "It Could Happen to Your Kid Sister"; Prinz played the unfortunate younger sibling referenced in the film's title.
- As "Penny Hughes" on As the World Turns (1956), she and actor Mark Rydell, as "Jeff Baker", became daytime's first major teen romance.
- Made her film debut at age 70+ as the title role in The Bread, My Sweet (2001) (aka "A Wedding for Bella") in 2001, co-starring Scott Baio.
- In 2003, Prinz returned to the New York stage in an off-Broadway production, "Killing Louise".
- Prinz's first husband was actor Michael Thoma, who appeared in such series as Fame (1982) and Eight Is Enough (1977). Prinz married, secondly, to Joe Patti, a retired jazz drummer, whom she wed in 1967, a decade after her first marriage ended in divorce. Both unions were childless.
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