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She was living in London studying dance, acting and singing when she was cast in her first professional acting role as the.
Later she met a fashion designer, Roy Halston and worked in his Madison Avenue store.
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On a trip to New York in the mid-1950s, she was cast as the White Rain Girl in commercials.
She began acting professionally at age 17 in a theater called Shawnee Summer Stock Theater.
At a young age, she trained for a dancing career at the High School of Performing Arts, and then attended Jose Quintano's School.
Actress Her harsh, hard-edged, pudding face was Laughtonesque in style, incapable of warmth much less a smile.