Antique collector on the side.Following a minor career slump in the 90s, she went to college and received her B.A. in psychology and theater at Antioch University.After making her TV debut as an Ivory Snow baby, she appeared on Broadway as a youth, appearing in productions of "Most Happy Fella" and "The Sound of Music".Played blonde "nice girls" in her early years; villainesses as an adultWholesome-looking blonde of many soap operas from the 60s throughout the 90s.Attended Los Angeles Valley College in the 1970s. Among her classmates were Merry Anders and Noelle North .Has been mistaken for Melanie Griffith , especially in the 1970s, because of their resemblance to each other. In the 1990s, the UK media mistook her for Melanie Griffith , claiming Miss Griffith had played the role of 'Bette' in Airport 1975 (1974); however, this is wholly inaccurate.
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her.