Trivia

Daughter of Irish war hero-turned producer Emmet Dalton.

Away from the studios she enjoyed sailing off the Santa Barbara coast , swimming and giving dinner parties.

Left Ireland for England, in 1950, where she studied at Highgate Dramatic School before going to RADA where she was chosen from over 500 girls as being typically British by producer F. Hugh Herbert and put under contract by Paramount to appear in The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953).

Has four children: Tara Anne (born 1953), Victoria Patricia (1955), James E. (1957) and Richard P. (1959).

Schooled at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Dublin before the family moved to London, England.

Was asked by her father to appear in his Irish film This Other Eden (1959), which included members of the Abbey Players.

Divorced from TV executive assistant director James H. Brown after 24 years, she later married an engineer, Rod F. Simenz. Brown was once a UCLA college basketball player and the former couple met at a college party.

In a 2019 article for The Guardian, Clive James wrote about falling in love with Dalton as a teenager after seeing Titanic (1953).

In October of 2008 she was a guest at the Lone Pine Film Festival, Lone Pine, CA.

Attended the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, NC, in 2003.

Wrote the introduction for the BearManor book "Scripts from the Crypt: 'Sardonicus'", recalling her experiences on the 1961 movie, Mr. Sardonicus (1961). (2021)

Under contract to Paramount for two years from1953, beginning with a role in 'The Girls of Pleasure Island,'".