She appeared in the Broadway musical "A Time for Singing", an adaptation of the novel and film Como Era Verde o Meu Vale (1941). She played the role that Maureen O'Hara played in the classic 1941 film.
[after the success of Oliver! (1968)] When I came back to America, I had offers to do what became a very famous series on television, The Brady Bunch. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to do movies. But then movie musicals like Doctor Dolittle flopped and they decided not to make any more, which was a big blow. I went back into theatre and nightclubs.
