Biografie

Because of her energetic style, Bob Hope referred to her as "A vitamin pill with legs".

She became a devout Catholic after a stay in a clinic for an addiction to sleeping pills.

Was discovered by a New York newspaper in the early 1970s working for a soup kitchen and later a rectory as a house cleaner. She gave out her first interviews in years stating she had been counseled by the Catholic priests at this parish who helped her with her addictions to alcohol and prescription drugs and to find new meaning to her life after Hollywood. She gave similar credence to this story to Robert Osborne in 2000 when he interviewed her for a television back story on his show on TCM.

None of her daughters attended her funeral.

In 1974, began work as a cook and housekeeper at St Anthony's rectory in Providence, Rhode Island.

I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't do anything.

I don't know where it's all going to lead. I have no idea where I'm going. I would just like to be happy.

Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.

Then the ceiling fell in and the bottom fell out I went into a spin and I started to shout I've been hit. This is it. This is it! I . . T . . . IT!

I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble.