- At age fifteen was touted as "the next Elizabeth Taylor". While under contract at MGM, she was promoted in a publicity campaign as "the new American Bardot".
- Signed to an exclusive contract by M-G-M Studios, in 1961, where she appeared in only three films: King of Kings (1961), The Honeymoon Machine (1961) and How the West Was Won (1962).
- Discovered at the age of seven, when she was seen by an executive from NBC while waiting for the school bus in front of her house.
- She was thirteen years old when she starred as the Blue Fairy (1958) on WGN.
- The daughter of Arthur Bazlen, a retail chain executive, and Maggie Daly, a Chicago newspaper columnist.
- In 1958, the "Blue Fairy" was one of the earliest Chicago children's show produced in color (WGN-TV, Channel 9.) Appearing in a blue gown, diamond tiara, and clasping a silver wand, Bazlen, suspended by wires, would fly across the small television stage, lip syncing "I'm the Blue Fairy, I'll grant you a wish, to make all your dreams come true..." She then introduced stories enacted by the Rufus Rose Marionettes. It was a short-lived fantasy series, but it inspired at least one Ernie Kovacs sight gag. It was a direct take-off of the Blue Fairy opening, with a Kovacs twist. Mustachioed cigar-chopping Kovacs in blue gown, blond wig, holding a silver wand flew across the stage, slamming headfirst into a wall on the opposite side, then, still suspended by the fly wire, dangled lifeless.
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