Trivia

Made her very first screen test with actor James Garner.

She was chosen as one of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1956" by a group of veteran actors and actresses. The selecting group included Ginger Rogers.

In October of 1963, producer Albert Zugsmith filed a $12,750,000 lawsuit, in Los Angeles, against Fay and ten others for allegedly libeling, slandering and harassing him, during the making of The Great Space Adventure (1963) in the Philippine Islands. The action names her and co-star George Nader as defendants, along with nine others described as newspaper columnists for Philippine newspapers and motion picture personnel. Among the allegations are charges that she and Nader conspired with other defendants and "maliciously" made statements resulting in various derogatory articles appearing in Manila newspapers.

Won a scholarship to the University of Washington at age 16, but, by the end of her freshman year, headed for New York to pursue acting.

In two memorable roles, she played the mistress or wife of a mobster. In Al Capone (1959), she played Maureen Flannery opposite Rod Steiger. In The Godfather Part II (1974), she played Marcia Roth, wife of Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg).

In the early days of her career, she was rejected by Columbia Pictures as not "photogenic enough".

Her only child, her son Jock, was born in 1954, from her first marriage to actor/screenwriter John Falvo.

Began as a theatrical apprentice & gained prominence in 1958 in the film God's Little Acre.

Perhaps her earliest TV appearance was as a contestant on the TV game show You Bet Your Life hosted by Groucho Marx.

While Spain's film career was rather short, she seemingly preferred taking roles on television where her work was prolific in the 1960s & 1970s.

When she was an aspiring actress, she was working in a tie shop, where she got to know an associate of the gossip columnist Walter Winchell.

In the summer of 1956, attended acting classes given by Professor Irwin Corey with friends Dawn Richard & Lita Milan.

On October 30, 1955, she & 14 other actresses are chosen as WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1956 by a group of veteran actors & actresses, including Ginger Rogers. The other Baby Stars are Phyllis Applegate, Roxanne Arlen, Jolene Brand, Donna Cooke, Barbara Huffman, Jewell Lain, Barbara Marx, Lita Milan, Norma Nilsson, Ina Poindexter, Violet Rensing, Dawn Richard, Doreen Stevens, & Delfin Thursday.