Mother of writer/actor Craig Lee and actor Christopher Ciampa .Began initially as a writer of sitcoms, including "Gilligan's Island" (1964) and "Gidget" (1965).Her younger son, Christopher Ciampa , the only child of her second marriage, was cast in several of her movies, including Children of Divorce (1980) (TV) in 1980. Some of those scenes were taken from her home life with Christopher, who was a pre-teenager at the time.She was a teenager when her son, Craig Lee , was born and, by age 20, was a divorced single mother. She later wrote and produced the TV-mini-movie I Want to Keep My Baby! (1976) (TV) in 1976, the story of a teenage girl who decides to give up her child for adoption. Son Craig died of AIDS in 1992.Originally a "Z"-grade movie actress who, after a serious car accident, turned successful scriptwriter and director/producer of television drama.